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This Christmas, The Mirror is supporting Together Short Lives’ Christmas appeal to help and support the 49,000 children and young people, and their families, across the UK who are unlikely to make it into adulthood. Christmas is a special time for all...

The Northern Ireland Department of Health has published a new 10-year strategy for palliative and end of life care for children and young people entitled Providing high quality palliative care for our children: a strategy for children’s palliative and end-of-life care...

Children with life-limiting conditions and their families met with David and Samantha Cameron at Number 10 last night, at the switching-on of the Downing Street Christmas lights. They were joined by The X Factor finalists for this exciting and special...

This year’s X Factor winner’s single will be in aid of leading UK children’s charity Together for Short Lives. 49,000 children and young people have life-threatening or life-limiting conditions, but many of these children and their families are still not...

Barbara Gelb OBE, Chief Executive of Together for Short Lives, appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning to call for the government to end the children’s palliative care funding crisis. Speaking alongside David Pastor, CEO for Claire House Children’s Hospice, she...

When you are sitting in a consulting room waiting for the consultant to explain why your child isn’t progressing as well as you might expect, or there is something visibly wrong but you don’t know what it is, a multitude...