Have a listen to these parents talk about the impact childcare fees are having on their families. We were proud to join with campaigners from a host of groups on Saturday to call for urgent intervention from the Executive‼️

Single biggest thing government could do to reduce number of economically inactive people who are long-term sick is sort out our mental health services.

Two million people in England are on NHS mental health waiting lists. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Children married as young as 11, others starving to death.

Families drinking from streams or eating weeds to survive.

This is the grim reality of life in Sudan, one year after it errupted into bloody civil war.

A thread🧵
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Come on Northern Ireland 💪 political leaders across the UK must listen to campaigners fighting for families and scrap this cruel policy that impacts so many children. When one child misses out, all of them do.
#scrapthesiblingtax

Is the #G20 about to do something useful?

Great piece from Larry Elliot ⁦The Guardian⁩ on Brazil’s G20 Presidency, a proposed Global Alliance on Hunger and Poverty, and an ⁦ODI⁩ report on how to finance it. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

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This is extremely important research. It's v difficult for initiatives the scale of Sure Start to achieve this level of success. A travesty it's been eroded by cuts that have not only blighted children's lives but stored up future cost for the Treasury.

theguardian.com/education/2024…

Come work Save the Children UK!

We're looking for a new Senior Politics & Public Affairs Advisor to join our team & lead our UK govt & parliamentary engagement on child poverty in the UK.

If you're interested & want to find out more, do get in touch!

jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/vacancy/senior…

Since you came into the world you've pulled hundreds of thousands of children into poverty. Like all children, we love to celebrate birthdays, but we will never support yours. The two-child limit to benefit payments should not last for another year.

We are incredibly sad to be losing our media spokesperson James Denselow, but wish him well in his new chapter!

James has helped us land some of the most important news stories that highlight the plight of children in conflict & always reminding us - children deserve better.

One of the best in the biz and will be hugely missed! Enjoy the next chapter.

Children are passionate about making change - but only 1 in 5 feel like those in power listen. I'm taking their voices, views & experiences to politicians & policymakers with this challenge: listen, and act on what children are telling you. #TheBigAmbition childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/blog/one-milli…

In the week that new stats revealed 4.3 million children are growing up in poverty, the Chancellor says he wants to do more to help people earning over £100k to get free childcare.

Families going through tough times deserve better than this

4 yrs on, new research Teacher Tapp Save the Children UK shows children are still suffering the effects of lockdown. The response to Covid failed our young. We now have a duty to put it right. My comment piece The Telegraph ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/1…

Children still suffering effects of lockdown

Report from Save the Children UK
Just for Kids Law Children’s Rights Alliance for England
finds 93pc of primary school teachers say pupils are struggling with social and emotional delays

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Is there a starker example of the health inequalities in this country?

People living in the North of England and in coastal areas more likely to die from ‘death of despair’

healthequitynorth.co.uk/living-in-the-…

“Adding the word humanitarian to something doesn’t make it humanitarian. These islands are lacking a huge amount in practical detail”

Alison Griffin at Save the Children discusses the Israeli Government’s plans to create humanitarian islands for civilians in Gaza