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Category: Children First Alliance

News and Updates for the Children First Alliance Campaign.

Parliamentary Newsletter No 13

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Parliamentary Newsletter No 12

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Parliamentary Newsletter No 11

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Parliamentary Newsletter No 10

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Parliamentary Newsletter No 9

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Covid-19 and Children’s Food: Parents’ Priorities for Building Back Better – Beth Bradshaw of Food Active Writes

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A new briefing published by Food Active and the Children’s Food Campaign shows overwhelming support for the Government extending free school

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Parliamentary Newsletter No 8

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Parliamentary Newsletter No 7

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Teachers fear a rise in hunger in children returning to school in September – Magic Breakfast Survey

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Magic Breakfast is a charity that provides school breakfasts to vulnerable children. They conducted a survey which assessed teacher’s views

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10/08/20 – WILL THERE BE EXTRA RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS THAT WILL NEED CHILD MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES POST-LOCKDOWN? – BARONESS MASSEY ASKS IN THE LORDS

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Read the full debate here. My Lords, some children who have been out of school for such a long time

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Helen Clark Writes in Nursery Management Today – Let a Fairer Deal for Children be a Legacy of COVID-19

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Our Lead Author, Helen Clark, has an article in the latest issue of Nursery Management Today, in which she writes:

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Parliamentary Newsletter No 6

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New Campaign Pressing for Summer Holiday Food Provision to be Made Permanent

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The Children First Alliance was delighted when, following the boost given by the intervention of Marcus Rashford and the appearance

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16/06/20 -Victory in the #SchoolmEALS4summer campaign – Phil Royal Writes

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A fantastic victory has been achieved with Government forced to continue school meal vouchers through the summer holidays! Many organisations

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12/06/20 – Summer Holiday Food Provision – Join In the online “march”

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You have no doubt seen and heard a lot of mention in the news and online about summer holiday food

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07/06/20 – The First 1001 Days Movement Calls for a Cabinet Minister for Children

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This week is Infant Mental Health Awareness Week. Leaders of nearly 80 organisations, under the banner of the First 1001

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01/06/20 – Parliamentary Newsletter No 5

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18/05/20 – Organisations, including children first, call on the government to confirm that additional funding will be made available to expand provision of free school meals substitutes, and to the National School Breakfast Programme, to cover all holiday periods across the whole of England until end of August.

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12/05/20 – summer Holiday Hunger – Paul Wright of Children First writes

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How can we make a difference while in this Pandemic ‘holding pattern’? We can hit a like button on social

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01/05/20 – Parliamentary Newsletter No 4

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21/04/20 – Coronavirus fears spark huge increase in child anxiety levels – Helen Clark Writes

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Parliament resumes today and MPs, who will be adapting to new ways of working, have a first opportunity after the

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06/04/20 – Helen Clark Writes about Children and Domestic Abuse During the Coronavirus Pandemic

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The necessary isolation rules advised by the Government due the COVID-19 pandemic have seen an alarming, but sadly predictable, rise

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01/04/20 – Parliamentary Newsletter No 3

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The third campaign newsletter was sent out to all MPs and supporters today. Click here to download it.

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01/04/20 – IMPACTS OF COVID-19 ON VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION IN THE UK

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The Lancet has been very much to the foreground during the Covid 19 pandemic crisis in the UK; asking the difficult

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03/03/20 – Parliamentary newsletter no 2

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The second campaign newsletter was sent out to all MPs and supporters today. Click here to download it.

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06/02/20 – Children’s Mental Health Week Debate in the House of Commons

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CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH WEEK DEBATE HOUSE OF COMMONS: 6th February 2020 The debate was held by Shadow Minister (International Development)

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Parliamentary Newsletter and Campaign Update – January 2020

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On 28/01/20 the following update was sent out to all MPs, selected peers, all Children First Alliance supporters and all

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Campaign Update – December 2019

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On 17/12/19 the following update was sent out to all Children First Alliance supporters and all change.org signatories.

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09/01/20 – Baroness Benjamin’s contribution to the Queen’s Speech Debate

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As Parliament resumed this week, the House of Lords debated the Queen’s speech. Our co-chair Baroness Benjamin made this contribution

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