Children are feared to be among over 1,000 people killed in weekend hostilities in Syria, which has also displaced thousands of people.

Cutting the aid budget to increase defence is a betrayal of the world’s most vulnerable children and the UK’s national interest.

Save the Children UK is to put 197 jobs at risk in a reorganisation aimed at increasing impact in the UK and around the world and strengthening its financial position.

Save the Children is asking the question – where is the missing Ukraine money? Have you seen it? Because we haven’t – and neither have the children of Ukraine.

Musician and Save the Children ambassador Sophie Ellis-Bextor has visited Warsaw in Poland to meet with refugee children.

KINSHASA, 12 February 2025 – At least 28 children were among 52 people killed in a violent attack in Djugu territory, Ituri province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a wave of extreme violence fuels an escalating humanitarian crisis across the country, said Save the Children.

AXA XL is providing a grant of $1.2 million to Save the Children for a five-year initiative to mitigate the impact of climate change across coastal ecosystems in Sierra

PORT SUDAN, 10 February 2025 – The last quarter of 2024 saw more violence in Sudan than at any time since the conflict began nearly two years ago, Save the Children said, with significant violent attacks against children and other civilians continuing into 2025.

Alarming trend continues into 2025, with at least 10 Palestinian children among 70 people killed by Israeli forces in West Bank

It is essential that this funding is additional to supplement a constrained aid budget and prioritises children on the frontline of these crises.

19th January 2025 - The Save the Children Immunisation Accelerator, funded by GSK, has awarded two innovation projects for finding unique solutions to help more children receive vaccinations.

GAZA, 18 January 2025 – Getting food, water, and medical supplies to children in Gaza will be priorities for Save the Children once the pause in hostilities comes into effect on Sunday, with preparations underway in coordination with other aid organisations to deliver supplies as quickly as possible once entry points are reopened and security guaranteed.

GAZA, 14 January 2025 – The use of explosive weapons in Gaza in 2024 condemned an average of 475 children each month – or 15 children a day [1]- to potentially lifelong disabilities, including severely injured limbs and hearing impairments, said Save the Children.

GAZA, FRIDAY 3 JANUARY 2025 – Israeli airstrikes have killed about 80 people in Gaza in the first few days of the new year [1], Save the Children said. Meanwhile, the UN reports that children are dying due to lack of protection from the cold winter temperatures while Israeli authorities block aid including tents, clothing and bedding from entering the Strip.

Children are scared to return home seven days after devastating earthquakes hit the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, making for a very different Christmas this year.

PORT SUDAN, 24 December 2024 – The lives of hundreds of thousands of children are hanging in the balance with new data showing famine has spread to additional areas of Sudan after 20 months of conflict and is likely to expand to five more in North Darfur by May 2025, Save the Children said.

Dolphin Entertainment (NASDAQ: DLPN) proudly announces its latest scripted content project with the acquisition of rights to The Woman Who Saved the Children, an acclaimed biography by award-winning author Clare Mulley. The book, which chronicles the extraordinary life of humanitarian trailblazer and Save the Children founder Eglantyne Jebb, will be brought to life as a feature film under Dolphin’s production banner.

Up to 650,000 children [1] and their families are in danger after Cyclone Chido tore through northern Mozambique, Save the Children has warned.

Save the Children is urging the nation to make the world better with a sweater tomorrow for the charity’s annual Christmas Jumper Day which returns for its 13th year.

Between 2021 and 2023, the children’s charity provided a total of 5753 grants to UK families in colder months (October to March) compared to 2427 in warmer months.

As Syria faces a critical turning point with cautious optimism for the future, the needs of children have never been higher with an urgent increase in funding required.

LONDON, Monday December 9 - New analysis on the quality and quantity of childcare provision in England has revealed that the massive expansion of free childcare currently underway is at risk of not delivering for poorer families, according to a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Save the Children.

KYIV, 9 December 2024 – The war in Ukraine is taking an increasingly heavy toll on children’s mental health with some developing speech defects and uncontrollable twitching, while others have terrible nightmares and scream in their sleep, according to Save the Children.

Families living in Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp are resorting to desperate measures with some going as far as eating animal feed to survive after four months of famine.

GAZA, 30 November 2024 - It is with profound sadness that we confirm that a staff member of Save the Children was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis today, the second Save the Children colleague killed in Gaza since the war began.

GAZA, 29 November 2024 – About 235,000 children forced from their homes by bombs, bullets and displacement orders in Gaza are facing increasing risk of disease as days of heavy rains flood tents and turn camps into swamps, Save the Children said.

Boosting the financial pledge and constructive engagement on IDA21 are a down payment on the UK's support for multilateralism and international collaboration.

Save the Children welcomes the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah but said that the violence must stop immediately to protect children in Lebanon.

About 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid workers and not receiving food.

Experiencing its worst floods in decades, Bangladesh is ranked as the seventh most extreme disaster risk-prone country in the world.

The new target figure of $300 billion a year by 2035 flies in the face of what is needed to tackle this emergency.

New festive Shaun the Sheep animation celebrates Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day

Actress Ashley Jensen has joined a group of schoolchildren on a knitted red carpet in the East Midlands to host an exclusive premiere for Christmas Jumper Day.

We are outraged by the extremely low target of $250 billion per year by 2035 in the latest draft of the COP29 finance agreement.

More than half a million babies have been born in Ukraine since full-scale war broke out 1,000 days ago.

We welcome the Prime Minister's commitment to an 81% emissions reduction by 2035.

711 million children were exposed to extreme heatwaves in the first nine months of this year - the highest number recorded since 1992.

Content creator Shabaz Ali is the latest ambassador to be joining Save the Children UK and will be supporting the charity by running the 2025 London Marathon.

Celebrities urge the nation to swap, buy second-hand or re-wear a pre-loved jumper for Save the Children's annual festive fundraiser, Christmas Jumper Day.

Moazzam Malik, a former senior civil servant and diplomat, has been appointed Chief Executive of Save the Children UK.

Attacks overnight that reportedly killed 50 children in besieged northern Gaza demands international intervention.

$37 million initiative by the Green Climate Fund, the Government of Malawi, and Save the Children and its partners to support a fifth of Southern Malawi's population.

We welcome and support the government’s key international development priorities the Minister for Development, Anneliese Dodds set out today.

Single parent carers, disabled single parents, those with no recourse to public funds and those in education and training are unable to access childcare free hours

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is launching a Middle East Humanitarian Appeal to raise urgent funds for people whose lives are being devastated by conflict.

About 10 million children across four countries in West and Central Africa are currently out of school due to massive regional flooding.

GAZA, 14 October 2024 – Up to 400,000 Palestinians were on Monday trapped across northern Gaza, with at least 300 people reportedly killed in nine days of bombardment.

At least 3,100 children aged under five have been killed in Gaza with other under-fives at risk from severe malnutrition.

How the Save the Children community based project Ehangu has helped bring communities together in Cardiff and beyond.

Virgin Atlantic announces two new partners to support its STEM education programme and disaster relief effort

Death rates from major cholera outbreaks in Sudan and Nigeria have surged to up to three times the global average putting thousands of children at risk.

What we want to say is simple: we never imagined the world would allow this horror to continue for so long, or for Israel to act with such impunity.

Families fleeing violence in Lebanon are struggling to find safety in shelters across the country with at least one million people now displaced.

Children in the south of Lebanon are in grave danger of loss of life, physical harm, and severe emotional distress following a ground incursion of the south of Lebanon.

About 60,000 children have fled into Syria from Lebanon in the past week since hostilities intensified.

Save the Children and the Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action insights into protecting vulnerable communities from climate-related disasters.

Save the Children welcome Keir Starmer's commitment to responsible global leadership at UNGA, but urge this pledge to be matched with action.

At least 21 children are among an estimated 270 people killed, and more than 1,000 injured in Israeli strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon.

The number of children killed or injured by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank has more than doubled since last October.

15 aid organisations demand international pressure for an immediate ceasefire, arms embargo, and end to Israel’s systematic aid obstruction.

Children in wartorn Sudan are likely to go for days or weeks without food or medicine as key bridge washed away in heavy rains.

Heavy rains in Borno state, Northeast Nigeria have led to the worst flooding in 30 years, affecting at least 239,000 people.

31 organisations call on all UN Member States to take urgent steps to protect people deprived of their liberty across the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel.

Recent heavy rains and floods across West Africa have forced nearly 950,000 people [1], many of them children, from their homes across Mali, Nigeria and Niger.

Leading children's rights organisations tell the Covid Inquiry how UK inequality levels on eve of pandemic meant children in struggling families were hit the hardest.

Thousands of children in eastern Sudan are at risk of cholera following a major outbreak caused by widespread flooding, contaminated water and a decimated health system

Save the Children reacts to drone and missile attacks that killed seven people, including three children, in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

Save the Children UK, said reports that children had died in the Channel earlier today were deeply upsetting.

Three in four children in Ukraine are living in constant fear amid an escalating mental health crisis.

The UK Govt has rightly recognised the clear risk that the Govt of Israel is breaking international humanitarian law. But a partial suspension does not go far enough.

A record 766 million children were exposed to extreme heatwaves in the twelve months from July 2023 to June 2024, according to new analysis by Save the Children.

Hundreds of drones and missiles have struck Ukraine in recent hours, with at least four children have injured in the strikes according to local reports.

New displacement orders issued by Israeli authorities have forced another mass movement of families and humanitarian workers from areas in Deir al-Balah.

Nearly 500 unaccompanied and separated children have arrived in Blue Nile and Gedaref states over six weeks as heavy fighting forces more people to flee for safety.

Aid agencies and medical professionals have joined forces to call urgently for a ceasefire to allow life-saving polio vaccinations to be administered to children.

At least 131 children, including babies, have been reported killed or injured in Haiti so far in 2024.

Newborn babies as young as two weeks old are catching the deadly mpox virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s overcrowded hospitals.

Children among more than 100 killed in Gaza in worst school attack in 10 months

Child casualties in Ukraine surged by nearly 40% in the first half of this year, bringing the total number of children killed or injured to 2,200.

There is now a clear consensus that ditching this cruel and unfair policy must be a priority at the Autumn Statement.

12 tips you can trust: talking to your children about racism by Reema Malhotra, Director of Strategy & Chief of Staff, Save the Children UK

Palestinian children in Israeli-run prisons have told Save the Children of facing increasing hunger and abuse, including sexual violence, with conditions deteriorating

Following the announcement made by the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, that UNRWA funding will be restored, Save the Children says it is a step in the right direction.

Some 23,000 young people have cast their vote in a mass-scale election for children across England and Wales.

Save the Children statement on the UK government's announcement of a Child Poverty Taskforce

Save the Children UK responds to the King's Speech

Floods from heavy rains and storms have killed about 40 people in eastern Afghanistan and about 1,500 children have lost their homes.

On a journey back to his birthplace, Save the Children ambassador Sir Mo Farah said it was heartbreaking to witness the devastating impact climate change.

Results in mass-scale election for children: Labour win 32% of the vote, followed by Green Party on 29%

The number of children in Sudan facing severe food shortages has almost doubled in six months with about 75% of children now going hungry.

The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action and Save the Children have launched a new research initiative to help make anticipatory action more effective.

Nearly the entire population of the Gaza strip, or 96% of the population, are facing acute food shortages according to figures released today by the IPC.

Up to 21,000 children are estimated to be missing in the chaos of the war in Gaza, many trapped beneath rubble, detained or buried in unmarked graves.

Save the Children UK’s income increased slightly last year but remained under £300m, according to its annual report.

Save the Children responds to reports on the findings of the UN report on Children and Armed Conflict.

Three weeks ahead of the general election, UK charities found that 70% of young people under 18 years old don’t know the name of their MP.

Today marks the first-ever International Day of Play, which has been declared by the United Nations General Assembly to champion and protect children's right to play.

The UN Security Council’s decision today on a peace plan has the potential to be a welcome and long overdue lifeline for children in Gaza, said Save the Children.

Devastating floods and landslides have affected about 600,000 children across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia so far this year, according to Save the Children analysis

Brutal violence in Rafah has escalated, with at least 66 people killed and hundreds more wounded, including children

Since 2016, Save the Children has received a phenomenal £22 million in funding from Postcode Education Trust, thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery..

As Israeli attacks intensify on Rafah, the unpredictable trickle of aid into Gaza has created a mirage of improved access.

Torrential rains and tidal surges have turned villages into islands after a severe cyclone tore through coastal areas of Bangladesh.

The number of violent attacks on schools and education in Sudan has increased fourfold since before conflict erupted in April last year.

About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan - or nearly three out of ten - will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger this year.

A heatwave in Pakistan is forcing schools to close, leaving more than half of the country's school-age children locked out of the classroom

Ruth Talbot, child poverty policy adviser, sets out what the UK Government must to do make childcare work for families

All aboard as a golden opportunity to win journeys on Great Little Trains of Wales in aid of Save the Children is launched