• 04 September 2023

    Acorns Children’s Hospice 22/23 review

    Acorns Children’s Hospice provides care, support, fun and laughter for children and their families across the West Midlands. This support is offered from our three children’s hospices, based in Birmingham, Walsall and Worcester, and in the community. Over the past year we’ve achieved so much thanks to the generosity...

  • 04 May 2023

    Bereavement support payments breakthrough

    Thanks to a campaign by the Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN), part of the National Children’s Bureau, cohabiting parents and carers will now be able to claim the same bereavement benefits to help bring up their children as if they had been married or in a civil partnership. It’s estimated...

  • 04 May 2023

    Urgent action for deaf children

    The National Deaf Children’s Society is one of 125 organisations who have signed an open letter to the Government to highlight the inadequacies in specialist support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in England. A wide range of professionals, including Teachers of the...

  • 04 May 2023

    Wearable tech breakthrough

    Exciting research from two ground-breaking studies shows the power of wearable technology and artificial intelligence in monitoring movement disorders, including Friedreich’s ataxia (FA). FA is the most common type of hereditary ataxia, often presenting in childhood or adolescence. Around 500 children in the UK have ataxia, impairing their balance,...