News and Comment

Together for Short Lives has today called on the Government to accept the recommendations from a cross-party group of MPs to strengthen proposed legislation on Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND). The Education Select Committee’s report follows its scrutiny of...

Parliamentarians at Westminster have been continuing to press the Government to ensure that children’s palliative care services in England receive fair, sustainable funding from the NHS and local authorities. On Tuesday (11 December), Sarah Champion, Rotherham’s new MP, used her...

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...

When Children’s Hospice UK and ACT merged to become Together for Short Lives five years ago, one of the first things we did was to think about our culture and our values – what kind of organisation did we need...

There is not a day in my life that goes by where I don't wish I could clone myself, while this would be a somewhat scary prospect for my children it might make my life slightly easier. I describe myself...