All the Children’s Commissioner’s work is driven by what children told us is important to them
Consultation paper: proposal to reduce the Youth Justice Board’s expenditure in 2015/16
My first act as Children’s Commissioner was to listen to children. My 2021 survey of over half a million young people, The Big Ask, found that children of all backgrounds and abilities, right across the country, were happy, optimistic, and determined. But it was undeniable that some children – particularly many disabled children – face […]
As Children’s Commissioner, I have a statutory duty to protect and promote the rights of children – that includes all children who arrive in this country, no matter how they get here or what their asylum status is. I have always been clear that it is for government to determine the right rules and levels […]
In the time I have been Children’s Commissioner, the online world has changed rapidly, as have the ways in which children interact with it. Perhaps the single biggest change is this: we used to speak about the differences between children’s offline and online lives. But over the time I have served as Commissioner, the walls […]