The purpose of this paper is to provide a self-assessment on the progress the Children’s Commissioner’s Office has made against its three-year strategic (2021 -2024) plan.
This has been divided into two sections:
- The Children’s Commissioner’s priorities – These reflect the core mission statements of the Children Commissioner and the guiding principles that underpin all the work undertaken by the office. Our self-assessment against these areas includes looking at how we have engaged and listened to children and young people, how we have used our outreach channels to showcase and amplify the voices of children, and how we have used the Commissioner’s statutory powers to provide a robust evidence base to drive forward change and position the work of the office as an expert in children’s policy. The examples used in this section are snapshots of indicators of the overall impact of the office; and
- Strategic pillars – These reflect the seven strategic policy areas, set by the findings of the Big Ask, in which the office sets it business plan activities against to ensure that all our work is aligned towards what children tell us needs to change to make England the best place in world for them to grow up in. Our self-assessment in this section looks at notable successes against the strategy and annual business plans both in planned projects and where the office has made use of commissioned work and influencing opportunities to put children’s needs at the heart of decision-making.