The Children's Charities Coalition

There are more babies going without support from health visitors. More children are growing up in poverty. And more young people are waiting months on a mental health waiting list.

These trends are going the wrong way.

That’s why we’ve come together with Barnardo’s, The Children’s Society, the National Children’s Bureau and NSPCC to create the Children's Charities Coalition.

Supported by nearly 200 organisations from the voluntary and community sectors, we want to ensure that good childhoods become a national priority.

Right now, the issues facing babies, children and young people today are not priorities for decision makers. These include issues like:

• Poverty.
• The increasing number of children being taken into care.
• School absence.
• A growing mental health crisis.
• Online and offline abuse and exploitation.

We believe all these issues should be seen as a priority.

In January last year, we launched the Children at the Table campaign.

We called on the government to ensure that children growing up in the UK today and tomorrow are safer, happier, healthier, and have more equal access to opportunities.

We asked for: