How much of the £3 million recurrent funding for hospices committed in the Welsh Government's 2025-26 budget will be allocated to the children’s hospices Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith?
The Welsh Government recognises the vital contribution hospices make to supporting families.
Approximately £700k of the additional £3m recurrent funding for Welsh hospices in the 2025-26 Budget is allocated to Ty Hafan and Ty Gobaith, the two children’s hospices in Wales. This equates to a 7% uplift to their staffing costs in 2024-25, and follows the £9.5m cost-of-living grants provided to Welsh hospices over the last two years.
We are working with the Joint Commissioning Committee, the National Programme for Palliative and End-of-Life Care and Welsh hospices to develop a hospice commissioning framework for Wales. It will be implemented from April 2026 and will meet the needs of adult and children’s hospices and create a more sustainable financial model for hospices in the longer term.