We help children's palliative care professionals to deliver the best possible care to thousands of children, young people and their families each year.

Our priorities are to (1) define and share best practice to enable the highest standard of children's palliative care (2) support the development of sustainable palliative care services to ensure they meet the needs of children, young people and their families.  

Our work includes:

Publishing best practice and guidance for children's hospice care teams

• Our resource library  features the guides we have produced for children's hospice care teams.

Commissioning research and doing our own to support children's hospice care staff in their work

• Our research strategy sets out the research we will do and commission in the future. It also give details of out how we will facilitate research capacity amoungst our member children's hospices.
• We publish the only annual survey of children's hospices' care delivery.

Addressing key strategic challenges facing children's hospices care teams. For example:

• We lead on the research project being undertaken by the Transition Partnership which aims to ensure there are better services to support life-limited young people who are reaching adulthood.
• In 2010 our Director of Care Development visited every children's hospice in the country to identify the strategic challenges they face and to then develop a strategy to help address these issues nationally.

Organising events and workshops to enable the sharing of best practice and networking between children's hospice care teams

• Our national conference brings together care professionals as well as other senior children's hospice staff to discuss key strategic challenges facing children's hospices.
• In 2010 we organised over 25 workshops and other events (including our annual Doctors and Care Managers Conference) for children's hospice care teams.  

Visit our care professionals section for more information about our care development work.