News and Comment

During a debate in the House of Lords Monday 14 December, Lord Freud (Minister for Work and Pensions) invited Together for Short Lives to meet with him to discuss our call for seriously ill babies and young children to be...

Major UK children’s charity, Together for Short Lives, has lent its support to peers’ bid to change the law to give seriously ill babies and young children access to a vital benefit which would help them leave their home or...

Parents of seriously ill babies make enormous sacrifices – but being able to leave the house as a family shouldn’t be one of them. Tomorrow, members of the House of Lords (or ‘peers’) have an opportunity to give an amazing...

A free guide is now available for professionals to support young people with uncertain life-expectancy who want to experience intimacy, sex and relationships. Talking about Sex, Sexuality and Relationships: Guidance and Standards has been published by The Open University in partnership...

UK children’s palliative care charity, Together for Short Lives, has launched a new guide Young Person’s Guide to Personal Budgets in England, designed to help seriously ill young people to have more choice and freedom in how their care is delivered....

Hosted by former Martin House Children’s Hospice fundraising manager Stuart Andrew (Conservative MP for Pudsey), our ‘Care Around the Clock’ reception was an important opportunity for our sector to ask parliamentarians to press ministers and local health and social care...