In 2015, the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) highlighted that 5 billion people worldwide do not have access to safe, affordable surgical care. The same year, the World Health Assembly (Resolution 68.15) incorporated emergency and essential surgery and anaesthesic care within 'Universal Health Coverage'. In concordance with this, plans have arisen to exponentially scale up access to surgical care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Children's surgery has yet to be formally recognised within these plans despite children forming up to 50% of the population in LMICs.