🚨 Decades of progress for children around the world is being undone. 🚨 The systems that keep them alive – food, water, sanitation, vaccination – are cracking under the pressure of global crises. If we don’t act now, children’s futures are at risk. https://t.co/NRj2ZAbLCb

We’re united with countless charities & experts including @NSPCC @barnardos @RCPCHtweets calling on the UK Government to protect children by removing the ‘reasonable punishment’ defence. @UNICEF_UK signed an open letter to the PM, delivered today. See: https://t.co/lvw8qLSBJI

Great to hear Early Education Minister Olivia Bailey, Opportunity Mission Champion @sarahsmithlab, @BellaSankey, @HamidaAli76 & @PhilipUNICEF_UK discuss why tackling inequality in the early years is essential to meeting the Govs school readiness target by 2028💙

Great to hear the Minister for International Development speak about the importance of focusing on children’s needs on our panel at #LPC25 this afternoon. Thank you to our panel @JennyChapman @UNICEF_uk CEO Dr Philip Goodwin, @AliceMLabour @Peymasad @EvieAspinall_ & @progbrit

Thank you to @IPPR, @JennyChapman, @DrumJamie, Svetlana @UKYCC, and @unicef_uk Dr Philip Goodwin for our discussion on climate finance at #LPC25 . Great to kick off our party conference events by recognising how children are the hardest hit by climate change.

At UNICEF UK, we’re for every child – not just the first two. (4/4).

The Government must act to end the two-child limit and ensure that every child can have the best start in life. Scrapping it will lift 350,000 children out of poverty immediately (3/4)

📣Over 6,000 UNICEF UK campaigners have written to their MP, calling for an end to the two-child limit, and 100,000 people signed our petition calling for investment in the UK’s youngest children. We’ve brought their voices directly to decision makers (2/4)

This week we are at Labour Party Conference with a clear message to the Government – “It's time to end the two-child limit.” Our vans and billboard will be appearing across Liverpool to remind them (1/4)

Children, among the most vulnerable to poverty, disease, conflict and climate change, should not bear the brunt of UK aid cuts. We call on the UK government to commit returning to spend at least 25% of aid budgets on children going forward.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's own Equality Impact Assessment stated the planned cuts to education and health from 2025 'will have an adverse impact on children, including the most vulnerable and children with disability'.

The 2024 ODA figures show gains for children in education and health in the poorest countries but these will be lost and progress at risk as UK aid is significantly cut from next year. We already know education will be cut by 42% and health by 46% in 2025.

We also welcome the increase to bilateral health spending and general increase of ODA going to the poorest and least developed countries. This would significantly benefit those children living in the poorest and most vulnerable communities to #poverty and #climate_change.

While we welcome the increase of spending on education, which went up to in 2024, It is concerning that primary education has gone down. Primary education is a fundamental right for every child and should not be deprioritised.

We welcome the decrease of spending in the UK, which went down to £2,827 million from £4,273 million. We call for a complete phase out of spending ODA in the UK

Despite the drop of overall budget, we welcome that the @FCDOGovUK budget was largely protected. The FCDO is the key spending department on poverty reduction.

Today the UK statistics on #international_development for 2024 were released: 2024 is the beginning of a negative trend in UK ODA, which went down from 0.58% to 0.5% of GNI and is due to decreas further following the UKG's decision to cut aid to 0.3% by 2027.

Today, the Lords will debate 2 key amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. These would embed child rights into UK Government policymaking. @UNICEF_uk has worked with @CRAE_official & @NSPCC to call for change: https://t.co/6nL9wOXSox. 120+ organisations agree👇

We are recruiting for a new Youth Advisory Board! Do you know a young person, who: Cares about children’s rights? ✔️ Is 14-18? ✔️ Lives & studies in the UK? ✔️ Share the application here: https://t.co/gQ1lyTgTW4 Applications close 10pm 21 September 2025 #PowerOfYouth

"The aid funding figures released yesterday reveal, once again, that cuts to the UK’s aid budget are falling disproportionately on the shoulders of the world’s most vulnerable children..." read more below https://t.co/INgVYxMYGj

Removing the two-child limit is the single most effective measure the Government can take to reduce child poverty. We urge the UK Government to commit to scrapping the two-child limit in the upcoming child poverty strategy.