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BLOG - Spending Review 2025: what this means for children in the North 
June 12th 2025

BLOG - Spending Review 2025: what this means for children in the North 

By Alexis Darby, Head of Public Affairs, Health Equity North 

The 2025 Spending Review offers a mix of progress and missed opportunities for children and families in the North of England. While there are positive steps in recognising the wider determinants of child health, such as funding for parks, youth clubs, and early years education, the overall package falls short of the bold, targeted investment needed to address entrenched inequalities in Northern communities. 

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Report calls for decisive action to reverse the decline of England’s High Street “Ghost Towns”
May 23rd 2025
Report calls for decisive action to reverse the decline of…

Read the report here The Government needs to take urgent…

“Red Wall” constituencies have the most to lose from Government’s PIP benefit changes
May 2nd 2025
“Red Wall” constituencies have the most to lose from Government’s…

Proposed changes to Personal Independence Payments (PIP) could have a…

“A UK wealth tax for better health”
April 15th 2025
“A UK wealth tax for better health”

An editorial written by two Health Equity North (HEN) Academic…

Evaluating Labour’s Progress: Tackling Health Inequalities Through Health Equity North’s Seven Missions
February 5th 2025
Evaluating Labour’s Progress: Tackling Health Inequalities Through Health Equity North’s…

Since coming to power last year, the Labour Government has…

MPs to discuss ‘unacceptable’ inequalities faced by women in the North at Westminster event
September 10th 2024
MPs to discuss ‘unacceptable’ inequalities faced by women in the…

The Woman of the North report, a hard-hitting new report…

Vast inequalities faced by women in the North of England exposed in report
September 2nd 2024
Vast inequalities faced by women in the North of England…

Click here to read the report Women in the North…

Regional inequalities in Long Covid rates revealed
August 23rd 2024
Regional inequalities in Long Covid rates revealed

Read the full report here A fifth of patients in…

Health equity experts urge new Labour Government to adopt health equality strategies to replicate past successes
July 25th 2024
Health equity experts urge new Labour Government to adopt health…

New analysis has revealed an increase in mortality inequalities in…

Leaders discuss health innovation priorities at party conference roundtables
December 18th 2023
Leaders discuss health innovation priorities at party conference roundtables

Two roundtable events during the Conservative and Labour Party Conferences…

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