Exciting news! We've written an article about how child poverty impacts education in the latest issue of Children in Wales magazine 💜 Check it out on page 16 here: https://issuu.com/childreninwales/docs/ciw_magazine_autumn_2025_english/16

This #TrusteesWeek we’re celebrating the trustees who give their time and expertise to strengthen our support for children & young people after crisis 💜 A huge thank you to our dedicated board, your vision and guidance help us create lasting change every day. ✨

Celebrating one year of our Youth Advisory Panel! Our Co-Production and Youth Engagement Manager, Charlotte, reflects on the first year, what we’ve learned and what’s next for youth participation at Buttle UK. Read more 👉 https://buttleuk.org/news/news-list/one-year-into-our-youth-advisory-panel/

We’re excited to announce Aniela Shuckburgh as our new Chair of Trustees, joining Buttle UK this December. Her experience in education, fundraising, and youth support will help us continue to make a difference for children in crisis. 💙 Find out more here: buttleuk.org/news/news-li...

Happy 147th Birthday to our founder, Frank Buttle! 🎂🥳

Young person and Youth Advisory Panel member, James, has written a blog sharing his experience of the latest residential in Manchester. Read his post to learn what our YAP got up to: https://buttleuk.org/news/news-list/james-experience-on-the-youth-advisory-panel/

💜 90% of families reported an improvement in their child’s engagement in education in 2024–25! From essentials to support and opportunities, our grants help children feel confident, ready, and supported to thrive at school. 📖 Read more 👉 https://buttleuk.org/our-impact-in-24-25/

The #ChildHealthWorkforceAlliance brings 25 leading health-focused organisations together to help build a workforce for the healthiest generation of children ever. Find out how government can prioritise child health in its NHS workforce plan: buff.ly/gF261o1 #ChildHealth #ChildWellbeing #10YearPlan

Kinship Care Week (6-12 Oct) celebrates kinship families in England & Wales. Let's honor kinship carers providing loving homes to 141,000+ kids! Raise a teacup! Get involved: https://kinship.org.uk/get-involved/kinship-care-week/ #KinshipCareWeek

Happy Friday! The Labour Party Conference is over and it’s been another really full news week. Here’s what we’ve been talking about this week:

💜 In 2024–25, we paid boarding school fees for 59 children and young people. Boarding placements give children from disruptive home environments the safety, care and opportunity they need to thrive. 📖 Learn more: https://buttleuk.org/our-impact-in-24-25/

Sometimes important messages need big spaces. All the evidence shows that scrapping the two-child limit is the most efficient, cost-effective way to tackle rising child poverty rates. Billboard by @savechildrenuk.bsky.social

When living at home became impossible, Louise had to make it on her own and became estranged from her family. With her Chances for Children grant, she bought a sewing machine and now creates beautiful fashion pieces, which she'd always dreamed of!

Happy Friday! Let’s wrap up the week and get to the long awaiting weekend with the Buttle Briefing. We’re covering everything we’ve been talking about this week on news affecting children in the UK ⬇️

Happy Friday everyone! It’s been a busy week, and it was tough to narrow down everything that’s happened. Let’s close the week recapping everything that’s caught our attention this week 👇

“We're seeing more people trapped in severe and sustained poverty, turning to food banks because they have nowhere else to go" @helenbarnard.bsky.social 📝 The cross-party Poverty Strategy Commission report is out today. It would lift 4.2 million people out of poverty. 1/2

Happy Friday everyone 🤓 Wondering if you missed anything in the news this week? We’ve got you with the Buttle Briefing👇

Tom Morrison's route to politics was very different to most - now he's using his platform to support an M.E.N. campaign

@labourlist.bsky.social More than eight in ten Labour members support end to two-child benefit cap labourlist.org/2025/08/end-...

New data from @stepchange.bsky.social showing a sharp rise in energy and council tax debt across Scotland www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/ste...

Have you signed our #GoneTooFar petition? Every signature brings us one step closer to real change for care-experienced young people. ❤️ Click the link to sign the petition: https://loom.ly/GdSv_gM#GoneTooFar #YoungPeople #Care #CareExperienced #Petition

Happy Friday everyone! Apparently it's National Relaxation Day, hopefully you’re keeping cool in this weather and relaxed during exam results week 😎. 🍧Grab an ice pop, and let’s recap the news of the week ⬇️

Congratulations to everyone on A-Level results day! We can't pretend that the cost of living crisis and poverty aren't massively curtailing the futures of children and young people across the UK ⬇️

DWP admits to the Canary it failed to consider impact on 140,000 children in PIP cuts plan A Canary FOI request has revealed that DWP PIP cuts would have hit over 140,000 children MORE than Labour said they would www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

A group of charities have joined together to write to the PM calling for action on child poverty and an end to the two-child benefit limit.

Great new piece in the @bigissue.com from @endchildpoverty.bsky.social on ending the two child limit on benefits www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

The School Uniform Bill will ban schools from requiring more than 3 branded items as part of the school uniform. Is this enough to help families facing financial hardship? Since April 1st this year, we’ve given over £100k in grants for school uniforms to children and young people who need it most.

It’s Friday, time to wrap up the week and get up to date with all the news affecting children's charities in the UK this week ⬇️

Happy Friday! We’ve got a lot to cover so let’s wrap up the week with the Buttle news briefing on everything happening for children’s charities in the UK!

The DWP has been forced to release secret reports into claimant deaths Cases of serious harm to, or deaths of, claimants where the DWP played a part and was forced to do an investigation have doubled - yet it is still trying to cover the detail up www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

@theguardian.com Tens of thousands at risk of poverty despite Labour’s benefit U-turn, MPs warn www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🏆 Congratulations to the Lionesses! 🏆 You've not only brought home the win but inspired a generation. At Buttle UK, we believe every child deserves the chance to play, dream, and achieve. You can help support the next generation of football champions by visiting our shop here shop.buttleuk.org

Happy Friday friends! It’s been a long week so we’ll keep it brief! Let’s recap everything that’s been happening in the UK charity sector this week! ⬇️

Happy Friday to everyone! It’s hard to keep up, so we’ve got all the UK charity sector news we’ve been talking about this week:

www.justgiving.com/page/alan-wi... We're raising needed funds for @buttleuk.bsky.social taking part in The Italian Job charity event this year.

Happy Friday! Let’s break down the news we’ve been talking about this week in the UK children’s charity space 🤓

We were here for Arwa and her dog, Jacko. 🐶 Now, Arwa has shared her story of resilience and recovery as part of our 'We're Here' campaign, featured on @itvnews.bsky.social yesterday. 🗣️ "I'm proud of this story and the happy ending." www.itv.com/watch/news/h... #WeAreHere #EndHomelessness

🛝Happy friday! It’s been a busy week, so let’s wrap things up with a round-up on everything children’s charity related we’ve been talking about this week:

This is the clearest info we've seen on the disability welfare cuts bill, thanks @trusselluk.bsky.social for keeping us in the know 💓

School children put in detention because parents can't afford uniform | Independent

Really great new post from @familyfund.bsky.social - explaining what the disability benefit changes means for families raising disabled and seriously ill children www.familyfund.org.uk/news/governm...

New report from Women's Aid revealing 67 children have been killed by a parent who was also a perpetrator of domestic abuse, in circumstances relating to child contact, over the last 30 years. www.womensaid.org.uk/nineteen-mor...

🚨 BREAKING: The government's bill to cut disabled people's social security is still proceeding, but with all cuts to PIP now set to be REMOVED. 🧵

❗️ Today, MPs will be voting on whether to make record cuts to support for disabled people who need it in the future. Disabled people are already overrepresented at food banks. We’re joining food banks, charities and hundreds of you to encourage MPs to say NO to the cuts. 📷 Credit: GMB

Today we need MPs will oppose the amended welfare bill. Almost half (51%) of families supported by frontline workers have a parent/carer with a physical illness or disability, and if unopposed this bill will push at least 50,000 children into poverty.

“I think some MPs will rightly just be looking at this and saying, I don’t want to be a politician who is responsible for pushing anybody into poverty, let alone more than 150,000.” @maxmosley.bsky.social on today's vote on disability benefit cuts in @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

NEW on Wonkhe: Reporting on focus groups with students in Nottingham for the UPP Foundation's latest report, Will Yates finds a new belt-tightening normal buff.ly/W1lKumE

This is a great step forward and will reassure a lot of people. We're hoping that a complete U-turn on cutting any benefits will be the result of the vote next week

Well we’re starting out with some promising news that disability reforms may not go forward! We won’t know the outcome yet, but we’re happy to see things moving in the right way! Here’s your favourite news round-up cutting through the noise: