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RCPCH responds to the Scottish Budget 2024-25
20 December 2023
The Scottish Government has published its Scottish Budget for 2024 to 2025.
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RCPCH responds to JRF’s UK Poverty 2023 report
26 January 2023
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on poverty in the UK shows that a million children under 4 are growing up in poverty.
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RCPCH respond to UKHSA reports of Poliovirus in London
15 November 2022
UKHSA urges the public and parents of young children who may have missed their routine vaccinations to ensure their polio vaccinations are up-to-date. This page was first published on 24 June 2022, and has been updated to reflect UKHSA’s urgent update.
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RCPCH response to the Kirkup review of East Kent Hospitals
19 October 2022
On 19 October 2022 Dr Bill Kirkup CBE published the findings of the Independent Investigation into East Kent Maternity Services in his report Reading the signals: Maternity and neonatal services in East Kent.
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RCPCH responds to the Scottish First Minister’s commitment to double the Child Payment Bridging Payments
13 October 2022
On 10 October 2022 the Scottish First Minister announced the doubling of the final Bridging Payment due in December.
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Response to the Poverty and Inequality Commission advice on the Scottish government’s child poverty plan
27 January 2022
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...
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RCPCH responds to Prime Minister's announcement on immunisation uptake
19 August 2019
The Prime Minister has today called for urgent action to boost the number of children and young people receiving life-saving vaccinations. This comes as it is revealed that the UK has lost its "measles-free" status with the WHO, three years after it had eliminated the virus.
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Improvements made but more work to be done, says Britain's largest evaluation of NHS maternity and neonatal services
11 July 2019
RCPCH President responds to latest National Maternity and Perinatal Audit and says whilst the expansion of perinatal mental health support is particularly welcome, support services are under immense pressure. He urges an immediate moratorium on any further cuts so "pregnant women and their children ...
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RCPCH responds to healthy school food move
13 June 2019
Prof Steve Turner welcomes Scottish Government's decision to change nutritional standards in schools to include more fruit and vegetables and less processed red meat and sugar.
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Response to research on compulsory vaccinations
17 May 2019
RCPCH's immunisation expert Dr David Elliman says "compulsion may work in some countries, but it is not for us".