Corporate
Governance
Scope of responsibility
The Commissioner is the designated Accounting Officer for the Children’s Commissioner for England’s office (CCo). The Commissioner has personal responsibility for maintaining a sound system of governance, internal control, and risk management within this area of responsibility to support the achievement of CCo’s policies, aims and objectives, whilst safeguarding public funds and the sponsoring department’s assets.
Complaints procedure
5 June 2019
We aim to provide the highest standards of work and service and to resolve any concerns about us immediately. However, if we cannot do so and you wish to make a formal complaint, this procedure explains how to do so and how we will investigate and respond to it.
Corporate Governance
Business plan 2019-20
29 March 2019
At a school in Newcastle this year, I met a group of sixth formers who talked to me about what needed to change for them to have the kind of future they aspired to. They were gritty, realistic and knew where they wanted to get to in life, but they couldn’t see how to get […]
Corporate Governance
Tailored review 2019
8 May 2018
Report on the Children’s Commissioner’s Office published in March 2019
Corporate Governance
Business plan 2018-19
30 March 2018
Half way through my term as Children’s Commissioner, I am as ambitious and aspirational for children as I ever was. This role is a constant reminder that a childhood that is happy and full of love is the best springboard to adult life that any of us could have; that children are resourceful, and achieve […]
Corporate Governance
Latest News
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Children’s Commissioner calls for urgent action to tackle waiting times and inequality in mental health care for children18 May 2025Statement -
Statement from the Children’s Commissioner on the Report Stage of the Assisted Dying Bill16 May 2025Statement -
Mental Health Awareness Week 2025: The importance of community from my Young AmbassadorsÂ15 May 2025News and blogs -
Children need to be kept safe online, it is our responsibility to protect them  Â8 May 2025News and blogs -
Children’s Commissioners unite to call for equal protection for children from assault in UK1 May 2025Statement
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Statement from the Children’s Commissioner on ‘Victims in their own right?’, a report by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales29 April 2025Statement
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Press Notice: Children’s Commissioner calls for immediate ban of AI apps that enable ‘deepfake’ sexual abuse of children28 April 2025News and blogs
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Statement from the Children’s Commissioner on the proposed use of pelargonic acid vanillylamide (PAVA) on children in Young Offender Institutions24 April 2025Statement
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Statement from the Children’s Commissioner on Ofcom’s new Children’s Safety CodesStatement