Principles around ethical practices aim to support charities, their governing bodies, and those who work in and volunteer with them in recognising and resolving ethical issues and conflicts, and make charities a safer place.
Charities play an important role in advocating for policy change, but many charities are concerned about the potential risks of political campaigning.
Evaluation often becomes a separate process with it being a report written at the end of a project, with limited use in day-to-day work, making it feel disconnected from delivery and harder to use when decisions need to be made.
Grants are available for organisations working with children aged up to 5 facing poverty and neglect, children affected by domestic abuse, children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, and improving the health and wellbeing of older people with dementia and their carers.
Up to £18,000 is available to new organisations (under four years old) that are youth-led (under 30 years of age) and focus on building financial resilience in their community.
Childhood vaccination figures for 2024-25 released by the UK Health Security Agency show vaccination figures to be well below expected for “herd immunity” in children, with one in five children starting primary school unprotected from serious diseases.