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Â鶹´«Ã½ responds to Social Care Review Implementation Strategy
3 February 2023
The government has published a long-term strategy to ‘fix’ children’s social care.
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Celebrating unsung heroes – President’s blog
3 February 2023
In a tough week for the child health agenda in the UK, Camilla encourages us to continue to advocate on children's behalf. She also shares her gratitude for the efforts of some of our overseas partners and our subspecialty groups.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ responds to Refugee Council’s report ‘The Truth About Channel Crossings’
2 February 2023
The report shows that 20% those who crossed the channel in small boats are children.
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UK Government finally confirms that the long-awaited Health Disparities White Paper is shelved
26 January 2023
Today (26 January) the UK Government finally confirmed that the Health Disparities White Paper will not be going ahead.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ responds to JRF’s UK Poverty 2023 report
26 January 2023
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on poverty in the UK shows that a million children under 4 are growing up in poverty.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ responds to EHRC report ‘Children’s rights in Great Britain’
25 January 2023
Equality and Human Rights Commission’s report to the United Nations raises a number of concerns on the health, wellbeing and living standards of children in England and Wales.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ responds to State of Health Visiting, 2022 UK survey report
18 January 2023
The Health Visiting Institute has published the findings from the largest UK survey of frontline health visitors working with families across the United Kingdom.
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Paediatricians call out unregulated, high sugar and salt baby foods
27 December 2022
Â鶹´«Ã½ calls on the UK Government to finally implement mandatory guidelines on the amount of sugar and salt that baby food can contain.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ responds to the Chief Medical Officers’ 2022 report on air pollution
8 December 2022
On Thursday, 8 December 2022, the Chief Medical Officer’s (CMO) annual report was published, focusing this year on the effect of air pollution on health, how it is changing, and solutions across a breadth of industries, including the NHS.