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Campaigning for change

By supporting our campaigns you can help us make sure that children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and their families have the best quality of life and quality of end of life care. Your support could help make a crucial difference in your local area and across the UK.

Legalising assisted dying: Please urge your MP to consider the implications for seriously ill children and young people

If enacted, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to choose to end their life. On 29 November 2024, MPs voted to pass Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults...

Please ask your MP to attend vital Westminster event

Help make sure seriously ill children and their families get the care they need. We need your help to ensure MPs hear directly about the challenges faced by seriously ill children and their families. On Tuesday 25 March 2025, the...

Short Lives Can’t Wait

On Monday 22 July we wrote to the Prime Minster to ask him to fix the huge gaps in the children's palliative workforce and funding. 3,660 of you have joined our call to end the postcode lottery in children’s palliative...

Disabled Children’s Partnership

Together for Short Lives is a proud member of the Disabled Children's Partnership - a growing coalition of more than 45 organisations - campaigning for improved health and social care for disabled children, young people and their families in England....