News and Comment

We have launched our new guide to commissioning, planning and delivering children’s palliative care based around the unique needs of the child and family. Now in its fourth edition, A Guide to Children’s Palliative Care, has played a pivotal role...

Last week, my limited scientific knowledge (a barely scraped GCSE pass) was stretched to the limit by a brilliant presentation given by Professor Persis Amrolia, from the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, about research into CAR-T (chimeric...

We have welcomed a new law which, the government expects, will introduce a right to two weeks’ paid leave for working parents across the UK who are bereaved of a child from 2020. The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay Act...

We have delivered a petition to 10 Downing Street which is calling on the government to fund, not fail seriously ill children in England. Signed by 6,670 people, the petition calls on Prime Minister Theresa May to use some of...

We’re thrilled to chosen as one of the beneficiary charities for the BGC Charity Day which commemorates the colleagues and employees they lost in 9/11. Our Patron Holly Willoughby, special friend Melanie Sykes and Ambassador Lance Corporal Richard Jones will...

A couple of weeks ago, the Government’s call for evidence on its strategy to combat loneliness closed. It was easy to miss, with little or no media fanfare. But the Government’s commitment to tackling loneliness and isolation in society is...