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Health inequalities

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Health outcomes continue to worsen for UK children – say leading children’s doctors

31 March 2023

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (��) warns that across most indicators, health outcomes are worsening for children who live in deprived areas.

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�� responds to Northern Ireland's Department of Health’s Health Inequalities Report 2023

30 March 2023

�� responds to Northern Ireland's Department of Health’s most recent annual report focussing on health inequalities covering the 2021 reporting period where data was available.

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�� welcomes free school meals for primary school children in London

20 February 2023

The Mayor of London's has announced that he will provide free school meals to all London's primary school children for the next academic year.

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�� responds to Welsh dentistry inquiry

15 February 2023

The Welsh Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee has published the findings of its inquiry into dentistry in Wales.

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�� responds to rollout of Family Hubs in England

10 February 2023

DHSC have announced that seventy-five areas will receive up to £300 million of investment up to 2025, with new family hubs offering support from conception through to age 19, or up to 25 for children with special education needs and disabilities.

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UK Government finally confirms that the long-awaited Health Disparities White Paper is shelved

26 January 2023

Today (26 January) the UK Government finally confirmed that the Health Disparities White Paper will not be going ahead.

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�� 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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�� responds to EHRC report ‘Children’s rights in Great Britain’

25 January 2023

Equality and Human Rights Commission’s report to the United Nations raises a number of concerns on the health, wellbeing and living standards of children in England and Wales.

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�� responds to State of Health Visiting, 2022 UK survey report

18 January 2023

The Health Visiting Institute has published the findings from the largest UK survey of frontline health visitors working with families across the United Kingdom.

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Tell us your views on a new app about health inequalities

10 January 2023

The College's Digital Division is seeking members' views on the value of creating a health inequalities mobile app. This would be developed in partnership with the paediatrics-led group, Wellbeing and Health Action Movement (WHAM).