News and Comment

New research published by the Local Government Association (LGA) has revealed that councils are facing a huge funding shortfall for children’s social care. In 2015/16 councils overspent their children’s social care budgets by a total of £605 million to protect children at...

The recent media coverage of Charlie Gard’s has given rise to heightened interest and discussion about children’s palliative care (both here and abroad). The case has created a high level of public consciousness, but sadly this has also led to...

Following heightened public interest, Together for Short Lives has written an open letter to the Prime Minister calling for urgent action on children’s palliative care. Read the open letter that Together for Short Lives, the UK children’s palliative care charity, has...

The government has announced that it is to support a Bill to introduce a legal right to bereavement leave for parents whose child has died. The Bill, introduced to the House of Commons by Kevin Hollinrake MP, will seek to...

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Children Who Need Palliative Care relaunched today LINK HERE FOR INFLUENCING POLICY ARTICLE (18 July) at the House of Commons. Excitingly, the group is now being led by two new co-chairs - Labour MP Catherine McKinnell and Conservative MP...

Statutory funding for adult and children’s hospices in England is fragile, unfair and unsustainable according to findings released today by national charities, Hospice UK and Together for Short Lives. More than two thirds of the hospices surveyed report that their statutory funding...