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Â鶹´«Ã½ responds to Spending Review
12 June 2025
The Chancellor has delivered her spending review for 2025.
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Our response to contemporary child health issues
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Â鶹´«Ã½ welcomes the latest urgent and emergency care plan
6 June 2025
The urgent and emergency care plan 2025/26 is a strategy aimed at addressing the increasing demand on emergency services in England.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ 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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Â鶹´«Ã½ responds to latest Northern Ireland youth vaping report
16 May 2025
The Public Health Agency (PHA) has published new research – the ‘Behavioural insights into youth vaping in Northern Ireland' report.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ 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´«Ã½ 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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Â鶹´«Ã½ 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.
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Joint Â鶹´«Ã½ and PCCS response to Supreme Court ruling on public naming of doctors following legal proceedings regarding a child’s care
17 April 2025
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (Â鶹´«Ã½) and the Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS) respond to the Supreme Court's Ruling on injunctions preventing the naming of clinicians involved in legal proceedings regarding a child's careÂ
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Â鶹´«Ã½ responds to King’s Fund briefing on Child Health
10 April 2025
The King’s Fund outlines ten recommendations to guide the government in improving children's health and well-being.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ respond to the latest Scottish child poverty statistics
28 March 2025
The latest statistics reveal that the Scottish Government have fallen short of achieving its interim child poverty targets.