We know that policies designed with communities, not just for them, are more likely to succeed. The truth is childhood health inequalities are not inevitable. To truly address childhood health inequalities, we must go beyond acknowledging the problem, we need to stop tinkering around the edges and fix the systems that perpetuate it. Read the full Report on National Workshop into Childhood Inequalities. Julie Cameron is associate director at Mental Health Foundation and an alumni of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland.