The two child limit has been scrapped! We’re delighted to see the Chancellor remove this policy which has kept thousands of children in poverty – harming their health and wellbeing.

Read our full response to the Autumn Budget: www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/...

Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. Why do a third of children live in poverty?

It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.

Children’s health in the UK is in crisis: rising obesity, mental ill-health and 4.3m children in poverty. The UK has some of the worst child health outcomes in Europe - this must change.

Policy Fellow Lillie Wenzel shares her views.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3KdqM8e

Nearly 1 in 4 children are overweight or obese by the time they start primary school, rising to more than 1 in 3 by the time they leave it.

Urgent action is needed to tackle today's weight crisis in the UK: https://bit.ly/4rt2F6v

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.

24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.

The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1