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VIDEO: Addressing child health and social inequalities through poverty reduction nationally and locally
In September 2025, we held a panel event at the Labour Party Conference 2025, held with the University of York’s York Policy Engine, Health Equity North and Child of the North. In this event we explored how national policy and local strategies can work hand-in-hand to reduce child poverty and close the health and opportunity gap experienced by children across the UK, particularly those in the North of England.
Speakers included:
- Kate Proctor, UK News Lead, Save The Children…

Professor David Taylor-Robinson, Academic Co-Director of Health Equity North, and…

Read the report here The Government needs to take urgent…

Three North of England Metro Mayors have now backed a…

Today (Tuesday, May 20, 2025) The Health Foundation reveals troubling…

On Wednesday May 7, 2025, Health Equity North in partnership…

People living in more deprived areas with worse health outcomes…

Women in the North of England can expect to live…

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

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



