Hospice UK
Hospice UK in the national charity representing charities in the UK. Hospice UK’s Innovation Hub includes support, development opportunities, resources, and guidance and access to their networks and communities for professionals working within palliative and end of life care
Together for Short Lives Series of Care Pathways
The Together for Short Lives Series of Care Pathways focus on putting children and families at the centre of the process of planning care and support, with the aim of delivering integrated services in response to individual needs. The Together for Short Lives pathways aim to provide broad frameworks for developing more detailed and bespoke local pathways.
Together for Short Lives
Together for Short Lives are the leading UK-wide charity for children living with serious illness, their families and the people who support them. The website includes a large amount of resources for health and social care professionals working with children and young people
Compassion in Action: Transforming the Lives of Children and Families—a free two-partonline learning programme from ICPCN.
Inspired by the WHO guide Integrating Palliative
Care and Symptom Relief into Paediatrics, these interactive courses combine practical learning, reflection and real-world scenarios to help improve children’s palliative care worldwide. Registration is now open through the ICPCN´s Education and Membership Hub:
HPAL: Expert palliative care information with links to local services to support clinicians and healthcare workers and the public
HPAL is a co-designed, adaptable digital resource providing quick, reliable palliative and end-of-life care information for clinicians, patients and carers, alongside locally tailored service information to support care in the community.
CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association
The CCLG website contains information for medical, healthcare and other professionals working with or supporting a child with cancer
Palliative Care Stories
AIIHPC produced videos of peoples experiences of palliative care
HSE Children’s Palliative Care in the Community Webinar 2026
AIIHPC hosted the HSE webinar on Children’s Palliative Care in the Community. This webinar highlights recent developments in children’s palliative care which have resulted from the implementation of the HSE 2020 report.
Talking about sex, sexuality and relationships: Guidance and Standards
Together for Short Lives guidelines and standards ‘Talking about sex, sexuality and relationships’ aims to provide some key standards for health, social care and education staff working with young people who have life-limiting or life-threatening conditions (LLTCs).
It provides information about how best to support young people, and their families, in addressing sexuality, sexuality expression, relationships and intimacy, providing signposts to useful resources and examples of the law applied to practice. It is not a comprehensive ‘how to’ guide covering every aspect of sex, intimacy and relationships but aims to highlight some of the key issues that may arise and build confidence in how to approach the issue of sexuality with young people.
The Sunflower- Palliative Care Podcast
The Sunflower explores children’s palliative care. Various hosts explore new issues and engage on questions about caring for children with serious illnesses and their families, through a global lens, bringing curiosity, humor, and reflection to the world of palliative care.