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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 qualitative research to generate new evidence about what the public think. We will use this evidence to build support for action to end child poverty in Scotland.
At the centre of Changing the Story, a group of parents and carers with lived experience of poverty are helping to inform and make…

Six Ways To Make Change in 2026
Setting intentions for the year ahead can remind us of what’s truly important. But did you know you can achieve your goals and help children at the same time? Here's our six ways to make change in 2026.

Aid remains a tool for control, not relief, in Gaza
An eight-month-old baby dies from hypothermia. Aid trucks blocked. Why Gaza needs a new independent humanitarian system outside Israeli control to save children's lives.

Global health advocacy wins for 2025
In a challenging political and economic climate, Save the Children teams in UK, Australia, Germany, Geneva, Norway, USA and the EU fought to make children's health a global priority last year. Learn about our global health advocacy wins in 2025 and how we plan to build on this in 2026.

Sudan war - How the UK Government can help
Learn how the UK Government can help Sudan, and the children and families who live there, through the violent conflict which broke out in the country in April 2023.

The results are out! A summary of Save the Children's evaluation results for the Sierra Leone Education Innovation Challenge (SLEIC)
This blog provides a brief summary of the learning gains we achieved through the SLEIC programme, and what they might mean.
How we can do Better for Babies in the new year
The Cabinet Secretary for Finance will set out the Scottish Government’s proposed budget for 2026/27 on 13th January. All eyes are on whether this will be a budget that provides hope that this year will be a better one for families. We’d like to see more help for families with babies and are calling on the Scottish Government to invest in a Baby Guarantee.

10 good things that happened for children in 2025
From a ban on child marriage to disease-reducing mosquitos, here are just 10 good things that happened for children in 2025.