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The Big Conversation Podcast: ‘Children are attacking children’ – Martin Griffiths, Trauma Surgeon & Clinical Director Violence Reduction

22 August 2025

The Big Conversation: In conversation with the Children’s Commissioner and her youth Ambassadors is my podcast series where I share the voices and views of England’s children.  The podcast draws on the themes in The Big Ambition and will focus on the most important issues that are impacting young people’s lives, with solutions developed with […]

Podcast

“Sex is kind of broken now”: children and pornography

18 August 2025

This report is among the most sobering my office has ever published. It paints a stark picture of what childhood looks like in 2025 with an online world that is, in many ways, completely unfit for children. As Children’s Commissioner, I have heard from a million children, parents and carers. Without fail, they all tell […]

Report

Growing up in a low-income family: Children’s experiences

8 July 2025

This report should not have to exist. Shining a light on children’s experiences of poverty in 2025, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, should not be necessary. And yet, the findings in this work highlight real hardship; an almost-Dickensian level of poverty facing some children in England today. After four years as […]

Report

Register, Regulate and Raise Standards: The Children’s Commissioner’s view on unregulated alternative provision

4 July 2025

As Children’s Commissioner I strongly believe that every child has the right to an excellent education no matter who they are or where they live. Young people have also told me how important a good education is to them. Over the last four years I have heard from a million children through my surveys, The […]

Report

The Big Conversation Podcast – Episode 10 – Ali Oliver, CEO, Youth Sport Trust

19 June 2025

The Big Conversation: In conversation with the Children’s Commissioner and her youth Ambassadors is my podcast series where I share the voices and views of England’s children.  The podcast draws on the themes in The Big Ambition and will focus on the most important issues that are impacting young people’s lives, with solutions developed with […]

Podcast

The Big Conversation Podcast – Episode 9 – Jon Yates, Executive Director, Youth Endowment Fund

22 May 2025

The Big Conversation: In conversation with the Children’s Commissioner and her youth Ambassadors is my podcast series where I share the voices and views of England’s children.  The podcast draws on the themes in The Big Ambition and will focus on the most important issues that are impacting young people’s lives, with solutions developed with […]

Podcast

Briefing for Peers on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill – May 2025

21 May 2025

The Children’s Commissioner for England has a legal duty to promote and protect the rights of all children in England, including those in care, living away from home, or receiving social care services, in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It is essential that this legislation includes measures for ensuring […]

Briefing

Children’s mental health services 2023-24

18 May 2025

As Children’s Commissioner, it is my job to make sure we never lose sight of the biggest challenges affecting children – mental health is one of the most significant. Each year, I publish this report to shine a spotlight on the state of children’s mental health services in England.   This is the fourth report of […]

Report

Children’s views on assisted dying

7 May 2025

As Children’s Commissioner, it is my greatest privilege to listen to children and to amplify their voices on the issues that matter most to them — both those that affect them directly, and those that may appear, at first glance, to lie beyond their immediate experience. At the heart of my role, as defined in […]

Report

“One day this could happen to me” – Children, nudification tools and sexually explicit deepfakes

28 April 2025

The growth of the online world is a technological revolution, the likes of which hasn’t been witnessed in centuries. The internet has enhanced our lives immeasurably, by opening up education, communication and research in ways those of us who are now well into our adulthoods might never have imagined. For children growing up in 2025, […]

Report

The Big Conversation Podcast – Episode 8 – Facing the Future, Festival of Childhood Panel Discussion

23 April 2025

The Big Conversation: In conversation with the Children’s Commissioner and her youth Ambassadors is my podcast series where I share the voices and views of England’s children.  The podcast draws on the themes in The Big Ambition and will focus on the most important issues that are impacting young people’s lives, with solutions developed with […]

Podcast

The Big Conversation Podcast – Episode 7 – Building the Foundations, Festival of Childhood Panel Discussion

17 April 2025

The Big Conversation: In conversation with the Children’s Commissioner and her youth Ambassadors is my podcast series where I share the voices and views of England’s children.  The podcast draws on the themes in The Big Ambition and will focus on the most important issues that are impacting young people’s lives, with solutions developed with […]

Podcast