As part of the financial support package introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak last March, payments of Universal Credit were temporarily increased by £20 a week. It was introduced in recognition of the additional challenges faced by families in receipt of this benefit as a result of…

We’re now a year on from the 2019 General Election. The Conservative Party fought their election battle on a pledge to ‘level up’ the country and won an 80-seat majority. They have frequently cited this agenda as their raison d’etre over the last 12 months. …

If you’ve had a glance at any of the reporting on the publication of the Spending Review, or heard a snippet of the speech the Chancellor made this afternoon, you would be forgiven for answering this question with a variant of “not a whole lot.” In reality though, child health…

Last weekend, we published an open letter to the Prime Minister, signed by over 2200 paediatricians, calling for the extension of free school meals to cover holiday periods, through the provision of food vouchers to the most vulnerable families. Children not having enough to eat is clearly a health issue…