10th Anniversary Lobby of Anyone’s Child: A look into a community bound by grief

By |2025-07-07T11:32:34+01:00July 3rd, 2025|Events, Reviews|

10th Anniversary Lobby of Anyone’s Child: A look into a community bound by grief Written by Liv Hamilton and photographs by Nigel Brunsdon On 24th June 2025, as part of the Support Don’t Punish Global Day of Action, a group of activists, policymakers and bereaved families came together in Westminster to demand better drug [...]

Ten Years of Anyone’s Child: Families United for Safer Drug Control

By |2025-07-09T00:35:05+01:00June 24th, 2025|Events, Families, Uncategorized|

Ten Years of Anyone’s Child: Families United for Safer Drug Control   This summer marks a decade since we launched Anyone’s Child: Families for Safer Drug Control. What began as a small group of bereaved families—united by the devastating loss of loved ones to preventable drug-related deaths—has grown into a powerful network of families [...]

On Social Suffering and Hope: Anyone’s Child Lobby of Parliament 2023

By |2023-07-24T15:19:21+01:00July 6th, 2023|Events, Families, Uncategorized|

Anyone’s Child Lobby of Parliament 2023, held on the 27th of June, was an annual event that advocates for a paradigm shift in current drug legislation. The people attending a new government approach that focuses on safety and harm reduction rather than criminalisation posed by the judicial system that is currently mostly used. The [...]

Reflections on the Anyone’s Child Lobby of Parliament 2022

By |2023-07-24T15:21:28+01:00July 7th, 2022|Events, Uncategorized|

Photographs of lost loved ones lay next to forget-me-not flowers. As a new day dawned on prohibition Britain, activists across the country prepared to join the Anyone's Child campaign for their annual lobby of Parliament. This year’s lobby marked the conclusion of the 50-year anniversary of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 [...]

Key Messages from our ‘Take Drugs Seriously’ webinar

By |2022-02-25T13:04:51+00:00July 15th, 2020|Events, Families|

On 25th June 2020, Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control, Transform Drug Policy Foundation and Support. Don't Punish held a special webinar titled: 'Take Drugs Seriously,' to discuss how legal regulation of the drug market could better protect young and vulnerable people from the harms caused by the illegal market. We received lots of [...]

Bereaved families call on UK government to take urgent action to end UK drug crisis

By |2022-02-25T13:16:41+00:00February 25th, 2020|Events|

This week the UK and Scottish governments are holding drug summits (on 26th/27th February) to discuss the growing UK drug crisis. In 2019 the UK once again recorded the highest level of drug deaths since records began with some 4,265 dying across the UK, including 1,187 in Scotland. Campaigners from Anyone’s Child: Families for Safer [...]

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