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Â鶹ӰԺ responds to Spending Review
12 June 2025
The Chancellor has delivered her spending review for 2025.
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Engaging with front line care, re-named diploma and ban on single use vaping - President's update
11 June 2025
Two projects which have been in gestation for a long time have both been delivered, pretty much at the same time. The waiting for a bus analogy, writes Steve, is so true!
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Â鶹ӰԺ responds to the expansion of free school meals in England
5 June 2025
The Government has announced plans to expand free schools meals to all children in reciept of universal credit.
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Report shows hundreds of thousands of children left waiting for vital community care services
21 May 2025
With over 310,000 children in England currently waiting for community health services, paediatricians remain unclear on how the Government’s ‘shift care to the community’ plans will work in practice.
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Thirteen leading public health organisations call on Government to outlaw physical punishment
15 May 2025
Leading health organisations have joined together in calling for the removal of the "reasonable punishment" defence in England as part of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
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Urgent action needed to strengthen community paediatrics in Scotland, says new report
15 May 2025
Â鶹ӰԺ calls for investment, data improvements and a sustainable community workforce to better support vulnerable children and families in Scotland.
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Â鶹ӰԺ respond to the Scottish Programme for Government
7 May 2025
The programme set out the Scottish Government’s intention to cut NHS waiting times, raise more children out of poverty, improve access to GP appointments, grow the economy and tackle climate change.
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Â鶹ӰԺ responds to Public Health Agency’s Children’s Health in Northern Ireland 2023/24 report
29 April 2025
The Public Health Agency’s annual report provides a statistical profile on various aspects of the health of children in Northern Ireland.
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Mitigation of the two-child limit in Scotland - consultation response
In May 2025, we responded to a Scottish Government consultation on the proposed policy measures to mitigate the two-child limit to Universal Credit applied by the UK Government.
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Â鶹ӰԺ responds to child and infant mortality data in England and Wales 2023
22 April 2025
ONS have published data on stillbirths, infant and childhood deaths occurring annually in England and Wales, and associated risk factors.