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Changing the story on child poverty - Alexander’s story

Save the Children and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation are working together to understand public attitudes to child poverty in Scotland. Our project, Changing the Story, is using survey-based and ...
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Statement: Save the Children's response on Chancellor scrapping two child limit to benefits

Moazzam Malik, CEO of Save the Children UK said: “We welcome this bold action by the Chancellor to scrap the two-child limit. By the end of this Parliament, 450,000 children across the country will ...
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How to Talk to Your Children About Refugees: An Age-by-Age Guide for Parents

I’m a Digital Content Manager, creating helpful content for our website and telling the stories of children across the world. When news about refugees and displaced families fills our screens, ...
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GAZA: 20,000 CHILDREN KILLED IN 23 MONTHS OF WAR - MORE THAN ONE CHILD KILLED EVERY HOUR

GAZA, 6 September 2025 – At least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces in Gaza over nearly 23 months of war, with the number of children killed now surpassing ...
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WORLD HUMANITARIAN DAY: 2025 SET TO BE DEADLIEST YEAR ON RECORD AS ONE AID WORKER KILLED, INJURED OR KIDNAPPED EVERY DAY SINCE 2000

The sharp rise has been driven largely by the war in Gaza, South Sudan and Sudan 65% of aid workers killed in 2025 were in Gaza At least one humanitarian worker, on average, has been killed, injured, ...
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STATEMENT: Significant reductions in aid spending will result in deaths of the world’s most vulnerable, including children

Statement following today's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) ODA budget allocation announcement: Lisa Wise, Director of Global Policy, Save the Children UK said: “The government has ...
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STATEMENT: new figures show 40,000 more children affected by two-child limit

Save the Children is calling for the immediate scrapping of the two-child limit as newly released figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that almost 40,000 more children are now ...
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The Scottish Child Payment is helping families, but more must be done to meet the 2030 child poverty targets

Poverty is a political choice, and the latest annual child poverty statistics put those choices into sharp focus. Although child poverty fell by 4 percentage points, the Scottish Government’s legally ...
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NEWS QUOTE: "4.5 million children now living in poverty is a source of national shame"

LONDON, 27 March, 2025 - Statement in response to the HBAI (Households Below Average Income) child poverty figures which show a record 4.5 million children are now living in poverty in the UK, ...
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The UK Government has allied itself to Israel’s atrocities

Liz is a Senior Conflict and Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy Adviser. She focuses particularly on the Middle East and Afghanistan. The horrors inflicted on children on and since 7 th October 2023 ...
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'We are stunned by the government's decision to cut aid budget'

In response to the UK government cutting the aid budget to increase defence spending, Moazzam Malik, Save the Children UK CEO said: “We are stunned by this decision to cut the aid budget in order to ...