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...

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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:

That's us now! So happy to hear some good news for the #DisabilityRebellion . Cutting disability benefits would be not only cruel, but have devastating effects for the children and young people we support

Life expectancy at birth shouldn't be impacted by where you're born ❌ Those who live in the most deprived areas of England are 2x as likely to wait over a year for non-urgent treatment; it's good to see a £2.2bn boost for NHS services in deprived areas: www.theguardian.com/society/2025....

The Labour Rebellion looks like it's building up momentum! #ThursdayThoughts

New figures from @nspcc.bsky.social showing calls concerning child domestic abuse have reached a record high. - a 14% increase on the year before. www.nspcc.org.uk/about-us/new...

Heart-breaking and familiar story from @yahoonewsuk.bsky.social shorturl.at/WTLHz . Scrapping the 2 child benefit cap would lift 400,000 children out of poverty

🥹We’re so proud to reflect on our last five years of work! Our 2020–2025 strategy was defined by ambition, resilience and measurable impact for the children and young people we serve. ➡️Read our latest blog reflecting on the last five years - buttleuk.org/news/news-li...

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🌞Happy HOT Friday! We were proud to support @trusselluk.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social on #GuaranteeEssentials lobby day this week and cuts to benefits have been at the forefront of the news cycle. Here’s everything we’ve been talking about this week:

It's #NationalBoardingWeek! We've been providing Support for Boarding grants for over 70 years! These are for special circumstances where challenging circumstances are unlikely to be resolved without significant intervention. Read more- buttleuk.org/news/news-li...

❗ 86% of low-income households on Universal Credit are going without essentials We support @trusselluk and @jrf_uk today in Parliament calling on MPs to act The UK gov must commit to an #EssentialsGuarantee, to move us to a future where everyone can afford the essentials.

Schools must acknowledge that care-experienced pupils are at a disadvantage, and they have an obligation to provide the necessary support to allow them to be educated and achieve their full potential // writes Shona Craven ✍️

It’s lucky Friday the 13th 🐈‍⬛! We’ve had wins for school meals in the #SpendingReview, but are still calling for the scrapping of the 2-child benefit cap to tackle child poverty. It’s been a big news week, so here's everything we’ve been talking about this week 👇

Here is our response to the Spending Review today 👇 More on our '8 Tests' which highlight what 135 plus orgs want to see in the government's child poverty strategy can be found here: endchildpoverty.org.uk/8_tests/