All the Children’s Commissioner’s work is driven by what children told us is important to them
Supporting children and young people affected by parental alcohol misuse
The Department for Education (DfE) is consulting on proposed changes to the 16-19 performance measures they publish, which are uploaded online allowing parents, students and policymakers to compare schools and colleges based on standardised measures. The publication of performance measures enables parents and young people to make informed choices about their education. The measures also […]
The Children’s Commissioner is a statutory position created by the Children Act 2004. The Commissioner’s remit is to promote and protect children’s rights in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the Commissioner’s role, she has met and heard from parents of children with serious, and sometimes life limiting […]
The devastating murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, and the suffering faced by all the girls who survived the attack in Southport in 2024, will never leave me. I think about the victims, their loved ones, a town coming to terms with the trauma. But I also think about […]