Dramatic food price rises have forced millions of parents in the developing world to cut back on food for their children, says aid agency Save the Children.

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Food prices ‘hit poor families’

Energy companies are being urged by the charity Save the Children to do more to help British families struggling to heat their homes this winter.

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Fuel help urged for poor families

A quarter (24%) of UK parents questioned in a survey by the Daycare Trust and Save the Children say the cost of childcare has caused them to get into debt.

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Parents ‘in debt over childcare’

As the famine in East Africa worsens, the international charity Save the Children has revealed a four fold increase in the number of children arriving at the Dadaab refugee camp in the last month alone.

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VIDEO: Children abandoned during famine

Save the Children is urging David Cameron and other world leaders to help fund the £2.3 billion cost of immunising the world’s poorest children over the next four years.

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Charity pleads for vaccines money

A higher proportion of children in Wales live in severe poverty compared to the rest of the UK, according to Save the Children.

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90,000 in ‘severe child poverty’

About 1.6m children in the UK are living in severe poverty, charity Save the Children says, a figure it calls a “national scandal”.

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1.6m children ‘in severe poverty’

Save the Children has launched a star-studded campaign. But have good causes become too dependent on showbiz?

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Has celebrity activism gone too far?

Save the Children said a halt in support of efforts to tax soda was unrelated to a grant it wants from Coca-Cola.

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Save the Children Breaks With Soda Tax Effort

A British security consultant working for the charity Save the Children is freed in Somalia, six days after being taken hostage.

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UK aid worker released in Somalia

A British security consultant who was kidnapped by armed gunman in Somalia is “well and is being looked after”, the charity Save the Children says

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Somalia hostage ‘in good spirits’

Save the Children calls for the unconditional and immediate release of a British security consultant who was kidnapped in Somalia.

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Charity plea after Somalia abduction

Two Save the Children staff have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Somalia, the charity says – they are believed to be a British security consultant and a local aid worker.

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Aid workers kidnapped in Somalia

Many acutely malnourished children in Pakistan’s flood-affected areas could die if major food shortages continue, Save the Children warns.

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Charity in Pakistan child warning

Nearly two-thirds of UK parents cannot afford after-school activities for their children, a poll for the Save the Children charity suggests.

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After-school clubs ‘too costly’