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The pace of recovery from COVID-19 can seem slow and it's easy to feel battered by the past two years. But there's important work being done - from the rollout of our workforce census to advocating for child health.

On Tuesday 25 January 2022, the Poverty and Inequality Commission published its advice to the Scottish Government on the Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2022-26. The report concludes that child poverty isn’t reducing in Scotland; in fact, it remains at much the same level as before the Child Poverty Act...

On Monday 10 January, the Department of Health and Social Care in England launched a new campaign with the aim of encouraging parents to make ‘healthier choices’ when shopping for household groceries by using a new NHS Food Scanner App feature offering healthier alternatives. The campaign follows...

On 24 December, NHS England published its 2022/23 priorities and operational planning guidance which sets out objectives and priorities for the year ahead. A new target date of 1 July 2022 has been agreed for statutory arrangements to take effect and ICBs (Integrated Care Boards) to be legally an...

Today, the Science and Technology Committee releases its latest report, Impact of social media and screen-use on young people's health. Dr Max Davie, RCPCH Officer for Health Promotion, responds.

The RCPCH is pleased to announce the results of the recent Vice Presidential elections. Dr Simon Clark has been elected Vice President for Health Policy and Professor Nick Bishop has been elected Vice President for Science and Research. They will take up their posts on 6 March 2019. ​​​​​​​

Its only 25 days into the New Year (happy new year by the way) and it feels like 25 months have passed. We’ve seen the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan (England), launched our own screen time guidance and hosted a roundtable with three CMOs on social media use, launched our State of Child Health 201...

The RCPCH has published State of Child Health: Two Years On, which highlights progress made against the policy recommendations in our landmark State of Child Health 2017 report.

Two years on from the launch of ‘State of Child Health: Scotland,’ the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) reviews policy progress.

Welsh Government continues to prioritise child health but ‘policies have to be delivered and enforced to reap the health benefits’ says Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in ‘State of Child Health Wales: Two years on’ report.