News and Comment

In signing an open letter to David Cameron and Nick Clegg, Together for Short Lives has joined over 100 other charities and local parent groups to urge the Government to strengthen the Children and Families Bill to make life better for families...

Together for Short Lives is calling on Peers to amend to the Care Bill today (14 Oct) to ensure a generation of young people with life-limiting conditions do not have to face a cliff edge in their care and support....

Together for Short Lives is pleased to present the results of a survey commissioned to find out the extent and nature of volunteering within children’s hospices. We have published a new report to shine a spotlight on the impact of volunteering...

A new guide, released today by Together for Short Lives, calls for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to work together across a population of at least one million in order to plan an effective children’s palliative care (CPC) service for England....

We are pleased to launch the final report from our Big Study project. This complements the Summary and the Full Findings reports which were published last year.  All these reports can now be accessed from our Big Study project hub. The Big Study...

Together for Short Lives welcomes a new report “Palliative and End of Life Care for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups in the UK”, commissioned jointly by Public Health England and Marie Curie Cancer Care from the Cicely Saunders Institute...