Cutting ODA from 0.5% to 0.3% by 2027 is deeply shortsighted and doesn’t make anyone safer. The deep irony is that development money can prevent wars & is used to patch up the consequences of them, cutting this support is counterproductive and I urge the government to rethink.

This is unfortunate. Lammy self evidently not been able to protect the foreign office budget since only weeks ago urged the US not to cut its aid budget saying it would be a big strategic mistake. By cutting to 0.3% of GDP, the UK, once an aid superpower, joins Italy in the G7

#UKaid cuts ~ my interview with Sky News earlier this week Save the Children UK we are calling on PM Keir Starmer to act in the UK's national interest and in the interests of vulnerable children around the world: reverse the aid cut now! m.youtube.com/watch?v=REsKg0…

For six weeks we’ve been delivering life-saving supplies to families & we still have medicine, tents and hygiene kits to go. We need Israeli authorities to allow unimpeded access. "We cannot take all hope away again from children in Gaza. They deserve more," Ahmad Alhendawi

NEW: Save the Children says it is worried more children with disabled parents will fall into poverty as a result of today’s welfare changes. 870,000 children live in families that receive Personal Independence Payments and 290,000 of these children are already in poverty.

The government's decision to delay the publication of impact assessments of welfare cuts and details of the new rates doesn't feel sustainable Liz Kendall, work and pensions secretary, said they won't be published until Spring Statement It means: * We don't know how many

On Single Parents Day, ace colleague & campaigner Ruth Talbot Single Parent Rights spells out the myriad injustices single parents experience day to day. Her blog explains how social security system and childcare skews towards households and 2 incomes. singleparentrights.org/blog/why-im-ca…

Today we joined Child Poverty Action Group and End Child Poverty outside the treasury to mark a miserable milestone. By this weekend, 30,000 extra children will have been pushed into poverty thanks to the two-child limit since the Labour Government came into power in July 2024. 1/2

.Keir Starmer keeps saying he wants to reduce child poverty. Evidence shows the most effective way to do this is to scrap the two-child limit. So far, Labour's decision to keep this policy in place has put 30,000 extra kids in poverty since they were elected last July. 1/2

I asked PM for his vision of foreign aid. Save the Children UK & Center for Global Development predict budget reductions will lead to 62 million fewer people supported in education, heath, SRHR, water & nutrition. What will UK aid stand for? UNFPA WaterAid youtube.com/watch?v=KmRyWg… youtu.be/KmRyWgLKK9U?fe…

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This is so nice to read!

"Mothers and children will die." What U.S. aid cuts mean for the women of Afghanistan time.com/7310744/afghan…

We are thrilled to announce that the Chair for our #LabourPartyConference child poverty event with Health Equity North & The York Policy Engine will be Kate Proctor from Save the Children UK. Find out more: eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing-c…

Huge thanks to all who joined us at Labour Conference in Liverpool yesterday for Save the Children's reception. We were delighted to hear from Secretary of State Bridget Phillipson who shared her commitment to reducing child poverty in the UK; Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP spoke about how we

I love chairing this event. Thanks for having me for another year and to Phillip and Hope from the Liverpool University Young Persons Advisory Group for their excellent questions.

Our thoughts are with all of those injured in this morning's attack outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. Hate and division have no place in our society. We should all recognise - as Jo did - that we have more in common than that which divides us.

Today’s @YorkshirePost features a column written by Health Equity North Exec Director Hannah Davies, who sets out why it’s imperative to scrap the two-child benefit cap if we want to see a reduction in the unacceptable child poverty rates. yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/c…