Parents have told us all summer about their worries about the cost of their children returning to school. Today's announcement, alongside the new extension of free school meals and uniform grants, will remove some of that worry, and give families some breathing space to focus on supporting their children back to school.

The UK's credibility on international climate finance (ICF) is in need of repair. As the Foreign Secretary commits to putting climate and development at the heart of the UK foreign policy, a reformed approach to ICF would be a tangible step towards restoring the UK's credibility and leadership on climate action.

Actor Himesh Patel narrates Save the Children's new animation Elephant In The Room to shine a light on summer holiday poverty.

Save the Children UK and Peeple are pleased to announce the successful completion of the handover of Families Connect, ensuring the continued growth and delivery of a programme that has supported thousands of families across the UK over the past decade.

Read Save the Children Youth Advisor Zainab's poem about how the heatwaves in the UK have impacted her and others.

A report on Save the Children’s Big Summer Survey of 2000 parents that reveals 88% think the summer holidays puts both financial and emotional pressure on families.

Save the Children Cymru’s latest survey reveals 89% of parents in Wales think that the summer holidays put both financial and emotional pressure on families with half (51%) saying the summer holiday is the most challenging of the year – ahead of the Christmas break (42%).

Nine in every 10 parents in Scotland[1] (90%) say the summer holidays place financial and emotional pressures on their families. Nearly 40% say they worry about affording family days out this summer, while more than half fear their children will spend too much time on screens over the summer break.

Health, charity and political leaders dedicated to improving childhoods in South Yorkshire are joining forces to launch a first-of-its-kind investment fund ahead of a major regional children’s summit.

Parent campaigner Thea Jaffe explains how families do not deliberately choose screen time, they resort to screens because they are time poor and burnt out.

Young people say that tackling child poverty should be the Scottish Government's top priority in its first 100 days, according to new research from Save the Children Scotland and Young Scot.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation has joined with six other anti-poverty organisations – Save the Children (Scotland), the Poverty Alliance, the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland, One Parent Families Scotland, Trussell, and Aberlour – to call on the Scottish Government to radically rewrite the delivery plan, setting out clearly how it will meet the targets.

Is it naive to write about hope after a weekend in which voices that seek to spread hate and pull us apart have been loud and organised? I don’t think it is.

Bilingual statement in response to the announcement of the appointment of new First Minister of Wales and why tackling child poverty needs to be the Welsh Government’s top priority

The latest child poverty statistics show a small drop in child poverty rates, but the real headline is that one in five children in Scotland remain locked in poverty. We spoke to parents from our Changing the Story panel and they are clear: every child in Scotland should have a childhood without limits and right now, too many do not.

Released to mark the three-year anniversary of the war in Sudan, the animation lays bare the growing toll of war on children worldwide