Jolene Martin, Participation and Projects Officer Save the Children Cymru shares her life-changing journey from experiencing poverty to joining the Voices For Bettws parents group and developing training to help fellow parents champion the needs of their children with additional learning needs. And she recently got to talk about with the UK Prime Minister when he visited Wales.

TV personalities including Amanda Holden, Sam Thompson and Pete Wicks amongst those supporting Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day 2025

Health is a human right but what is the role of the private sector to deliver it? Too many families around the world are driven into poverty by medical costs when governments struggle to meet the healthcare needs of their populations. Last week, at the World Health Summit, Save the Children convened a panel of experts from Gavi, GSK, Reach52, Kumwe Hub and the WHO to explore the potential of public-private partnerships to accelerate progress towards Universal Health Coverage and ensuring access for those living in poverty.

Choosing to bring new life into an uncertain future is never an easy decision to make - but the hope and possibility that all children bring can be galvanising.

Hear about our visit with the Duke of Sussex and the Director General of the World Health Organisation to the Centre for Blast Injuries at Imperial College London, and why the work there is so vital to help children injured in war.

Shurouq, 31, is a Save the Children staff member in Gaza. Since October 2023, she has been displaced eight times after losing her husband in the first weeks of the war. In September 2025, under relentless Israeli bombardment, she left her home in Gaza City with Karmel*, her 3-year-old daughter. In this account, she tells us about the impact of two years of relentless violence and multiple displacements on her and her daughter

On the eve of the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Save the Children’s Senior Development Finance Advisor, Richard Watts, explains how the current push from key donor governments for multilateral institutions, like the World Bank, to “do more with less” puts millions of children’s lives at risk, and urges a shift to a “do more with more” approach through innovation and inclusivity.

Help your child understand refugees with age-appropriate advice from Save the Children. Practical scripts and conversation starters for talking about displacement, asylum, and why families flee their homes.

Fundraising events like Christmas Jumper Day are an important part of the school year - they let kids have fun while developing empathy and an understanding of the world.

When there are upsetting events in the news or in the local community, children may see, hear or read things that cause them anxiety or distress. Help them understand.

Practical, age-appropriate strategies to help your child understand global issues, develop empathy and take positive action. Evidence-based advice from Save the Children's 100+ years working with children worldwide.

1 in 5 UK children experience anxiety. Discover evidence-based ways to support worried children at home, plus when to seek professional help.

Five youth-informed tips to help children cope with climate anxiety. Evidence-based guidance from Save the Children. Includes signs of eco-anxiety. Updated 2025.

Five expert tips to help children cope with anxiety about war and conflict. Evidence-based guidance from Save the Children psychologists. Updated 2025.

One in five UK children experience anxiety. Discover 5 evidence-based ways to support your child with back-to-school worries and separation anxiety.

LONDON, 29 SEPTEMBER 2025 - The Children’s Rights Organisations (CROs) comprising of five leading children’s rights groups are calling on the Covid-19 Inquiry to deliver justice, strengthen safeguards, and put children first- after systemic failures during the pandemic caused devastating harm to countless young people.

All you need to raise a child without unconscious bias.

As Stormont’s Anti-Poverty Strategy consultation closes Save the Children NI insist children & families deserve a total rewrite of the plan.

Expert heatwave safety tips for children from Save the Children. Learn how to protect kids during extreme heat with practical advice backed by NHS guidance.

The UK faced a recent heatwave and is braced for more to come. As worrying as this is for us, the health implications for children on the frontline of the climate emergency are so much more dire and exacerbated by fragile health systems as well as the recent cuts to overseas development assistance. The UK government must go further and faster to protect children from the devastating impacts of heatwaves and other climate extremes, both at home and abroad.

The NHS, which was delivered during post-war economic decline, turns 77 this Saturday while essential healthcare remains out of reach for over half of the world's population. Millions of children bear the brunt of this inequality, dying from preventable conditions. Universal Health Coverage could change this and with the UK’s leadership in supporting global health, free healthcare for all children everywhere could become a reality.

Read how vaccines have transformed global health, from Edward Jenner's groundbreaking discovery using cowpox to prevent smallpox, to the reduction of diseases like polio, measles, diphtheria, and tetanus. Discuss the challenges of funding and misinformation today, and what breakthroughs—like malaria and TB vaccines—mean for the future. With partnerships like Gavi leading the way, vaccines continue to give every child the chance to grow up healthy and safe.

African children need more than handouts: they need allies.

Why is mass lobbying so important - and how you can get involved

For 20 months, the world has looked on in horror at the atrocities inflicted on Palestinian children by Israeli forces, live-streamed on our TV channels and social media. But this is not an anomaly. It is an extreme example of a global trend of rising violence against children that is devastating their lives and futures.

At our child-friendly space in Zaatari camp, children are re-learning how to laugh, play and be themselves.

The conclusion of the UK’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) last week brought good and bad news. The bad news? It began to give us details of the previously announced cuts to overseas aid, with the budget falling from £9.3bn in 2024/25 to £6.19bn in 2027/28. That’s over £3bn less spent on protecting the world’s most vulnerable people.

This year’s World Refugee Day is an opportunity to stand in solidarity with refugees and their communities around the world. For the 14.8 million school-aged refugees around the world today, many of them have told us – they prioritise education.