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Exploring the feasibility of creating a new ‘good schools index’ for secondary schools

A report about children and the justice system

Joint Commissioners’ reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Children and young people’s voices about their experiences on the delivery of their rights

Three years since the publication of a Green Paper, and over 18 months since a White Paper, the Government has announced its final plans for a new Online Safety Bill. The Children’s Commissioner welcomes this groundbreaking legislation, which is a significant step forward in combatting online harms. There is now much work to be done […]

In March 2020 schools across England closed for nearly all pupils. Those allowed to attend rarely did, and even a partial re-opening of schools in July saw a peak school attendance of just 17.5%. By the time schools re-opened in September, 575 million days of school had been missed by children in England. The impact […]

In this episode, Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield visits a family hub in Doncaster.

This briefing aims to understand which apps and sites children and teens are using to communicate, and to find out more about what they are sharing on these platforms. In March 2020 we polled 2,003 children aged 8-17 on their use of messaging platforms, in an effort to understand the risks that these services may […]

Last year we produced our first annual report on children living in secure accommodation. ‘Who are they? Where are they?’ set out, as far as possible given limited available data, how many children in England are ‘locked up’ in many different kinds of institutions. The report found a relatively small group of children – 1,465 […]

As part of our research into the experiences of children admitted to inpatient mental health wards, we carried out visits to four different Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) inpatient wards, including:  two general CAMHS wards, one Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and one Specialist Eating Disorder Unit. The primary focus of the work […]

 Teenagers are consistently presented in the media as ‘trouble’, as perpetrators of crime and anti-social behaviour, alarming knife-wielding creatures lurking in groups in hoodies, mobile phones clamped to their ears. Some shopping centres even ban hoodies or use high-pitched ‘mosquito’ devices to prevent teens hanging around. But we have become concerned at the level […]

We’re submitting this briefing as evidence to the Government’s consultation on loot boxes in video games