If we want high-quality early education and childcare, we need to value the people delivering it.
We support calls for a ten-year workforce strategy set out in this new Model for Change from @coalitionedcare.bsky.social and Leeds University.
Find out more here 👇
White text on red background reads: protecting children must remain a priority.
The UK can’t expect countries to stand on their own two feet when they are having the rug pulled from under them.
At precisely the moment children need more support, these decisions will hit the most vulnerable the hardest. Even with a constrained budget, protecting children must remain non-negotiable.
The Government has a responsibility to protect children from the damage of UK aid cuts by prioritising their needs, rights, and futures in every funding decision.
While we welcome the focus on innovation and move to work more in partnership with countries, the Government's efforts to frame this as a positive story will ring hollow for all the children around the world losing access to lifesaving healthcare, education and protection.
White text on a black background reads: protecting children should be non-negotiable. A red graphic depicting a child hugging their knees is underneath.
The Foreign Secretary @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social has today announced how the UK Government plans to spend the overseas aid budget, which they slashed last year.
The Government has a responsibility to protect children from the damage of UK aid cuts by prioritising their needs, rights, and futures in every funding decision.
While we welcome the focus on innovation and move to work more in partnership with countries, the Government's efforts to frame this as a positive story will ring hollow for all the children around the world losing access to lifesaving healthcare, education and protection.
We're being forced to close vital programmes at a time when children need them more than ever.
The aid system needs to be updated as global challenges evolve, but cuts cannot be made without considering children for whom aid programmes are a lifeline.
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NEW: Most of the 4.9 million children who died in 2024 could have been saved, according to a new UN report.
This analysis confirms what we’re already seeing- cuts to aid are not just budget decisions, they are death sentences for children.
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Military escalation across the Middle East is having a rising human cost.
We’ve joined 13 other aid and rights groups to call for an immediate end to this spiral of violence.
Read our statement here: bit.ly/4aPYHhY
Some good news. There's been a surge in volunteering spirit in our Save the Children stores here. Volunteers are giving more hours of their time than before. We called in to our east Belfast store to meet this brilliant group of volunteers who have become firm friends. @savechildrenuk.bsky.social
White text reading: 'every war is a war on children'. On an illustrated background showing two children sheltering from what appears to be a burning building behind them.
Across the Middle East and wider region, the escalation of violence is having a devastating impact on children. As tensions rise, children’s lives hang in the balance. We urge all parties to abide by international humanitarian law and protect civilians. It must stop.
Last night, Russian strikes killed three young children – two one-year-old boys and one two-year-old girl – and one man in Ukraine.
This war on children and attacks on civilian infrastructure must end.
... it can’t be delivered through severe cuts to climate funds and children then having to pick up the tab.
Make polluters pay, not children.
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The UK cannot shy away from paying its fair share of the international climate finance goal agreed in 2024.
Exploring a new approach to international cooperation rooted in partnership is the right thing to do but...
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Great to see that the first major hurdle for the Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill passed in UK Parliament last night.
Scrapping the two-child limit to benefits will lift 450,000 children out of poverty - the single most powerful step to reduce child poverty in a generation.
The most cost effective way to do this is by scrapping the two-child limit to benefits.
The Bill going through Parliament today is the final step on the journey to reducing record-high child poverty rates.
Change cannot come soon enough for these children.
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EXC: Almost 4 out of 5 (78%) people support the UK Government's aim to cut child poverty, according to new polling from Save the Children and @yougov.co.uk.
It couldn't be clearer - the general public wants child poverty to come down.
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Aid cuts are already forcing us to close vital programmes at a time when children need them more than ever.
The aid system needs to be updated as global challenges evolve, but cuts cannot be made without considering children for whom aid programmes are a lifeline.
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NEW: Nearly 23 million additional deaths are expected by 2030 as a result of aid cuts, a new report estimates.
This analysis confirms what we’re already seeing- cuts to aid are not just budget decisions, they are death sentences for children.
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Big polluters are fuelling the climate crisis.
The fair tax treaty being negotiated at the UN could help make these polluters pay up for their damages, as well as change the rules to tax the super rich and end international tax dodging.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
After 1,000 days of conflict, the needs in Sudan are greater than ever.
The UK must step up & use its influence to break international paralysis & prevent an even greater catastrophe.
Alongside 12 other leading aid charities we have come together to call for action from the UK Govt: bit.ly/49uLQ2H
Just a reminder that as legislation is introduced today to scrap the two-child limit to benefits that this policy will lift 450,000 children out of poverty, the single most powerful step to reduce child poverty in a generation ♥️
Save the Children is among the INGOs that have been denied re-registration by Israeli authorities to continue providing humanitarian aid to Palestinian communities from 1 January 2026.
Read our full statement here: bit.ly/4srvdxv
Here's to a year where we show up for children the way they deserve.
Where they don't go hungry, or lose homes and family to conflict and natural disasters. Where they are protected from diseases, and can go to school.
Where children can learn and grow, and have the childhood that is their right.
An old photo of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children, with text overlay reading "humanity owes the child the best it has to give"
Our New Year's resolution? It's quite simple.
Give all children, everywhere, the best humanity has to offer.
A significant step towards finally seeing this huge fund released to support victims of the war in Ukraine, after successive Governments have blocked its release for over 3 years.
It must be unlocked now. The victims of the war can't wait any longer.
White and red text on black background reads: 1 in 3 children in the UK face poverty this Christmas. There are two green and one red Christmas tree outlines underneath and a Save the Children logo.
Right now in the UK, over 4 million children are living in poverty. That's nearly 1 in 3. This December it's not toys and treats many children are waiting for. It's the essentials they need to survive.
Read more about the reality of living in poverty in the UK, and how we're helping: bit.ly/3KG66G4
...as a blueprint for creating policy in future that impacts young people.
We welcome this expansive and historic plan, and we look forward to seeing the difference it can make to children’s lives in the years to come.
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