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.
Marie Curie Scotland Dying in Poverty 2025 Report
Marie Curie and Loughborough University report which explores the impact of end of life poverty and fuel poverty in Scotland in 2025.
Palliative and End-of-Life Care at the Deep End: Trauma-informed and inclusive approaches to palliative and end-of-life care for people experiencing marginalisation.
Shaun Peter Qureshi, Churchill Fellow 2023, has published a report representing the results of his Churchill Fellowship research exploring overcoming the problem of inequity in palliative and end-of-life care access in the UK. This report is the culmination of international learning and discovery which has led to the development of ten recommendations for inclusive trauma-informed palliative care. The report focuses in detail on the needs of people who are in prison and people experiencing homelessness (encompassing all forms of homelessness and being vulnerably housed)
Belonging and Beyond
Welcome to Belongiing and Beyond: Exploring Belonging Through How We Live and Die, brought to you by Princess Alice Hospice with your hosts Rach Basak
Homelessness and Palliative Care Toolkit
This website also hosts the IMPROVE Community of Practice resources and the Homelessness and Palliative Care Network sessions and other key films and resources.
The Victoria & Stuart Project
The toolkit was created together with people with learning disabilities, families, learning disability support staff, and healthcare professionals. It includes resources and approaches to support staff with end of life care planning with people with learning disabilities
We Are All Dying Podcast – Learning Disabilities and End-of-Life Planning with Andrea Bruun
Insights from The DAPPLE Project, which focuses on developing better service models, and reflects on work co-designing end-of-life planning tools with people with learning disabilities and social care teams
Hospice UK – Bereavement Guide for Line Managers
HUK’s Compassionate Employers team has developed a free guide for line managers to help employers and line managers respond with confidence and compassion.
Toolkit for palliative care needs in children
Together for Short Lives has published updated categories of children’s palliative care, giving professionals a shared framework to identify which children may benefit from a palliative care approach.
Rewilding healthcare by cultivating relational systems to reimagine palliative care
Rewilding Healthcare by Cultivating Relational Systems, is a new report by Dr Sarah Yardley, UCL researcher and Churchill Fellow. It calls for a major rethink of how palliative care is designed and delivered for people with complex mental health needs.