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Resources
- Children’s views on assisted dying
- “One day this could happen to me” - Children, nudification tools and sexually explicit deepfakes
- The Big Conversation Podcast – Episode 8 - Facing the Future, Festival of Childhood Panel Discussion
- The Big Conversation Podcast – Episode 7 – Building the Foundations, Festival of Childhood Panel Discussion
- School phone policies in England: Findings from the Children’s Commissioner’s School and College Survey
- My Plan for the year, 2025-26
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- The impact of housing instability on children's GCSE grades
- The Big Conversation Podcast – Episode 6 – Mina Gerhardsen, Norwegian Ombudsperson for Children
- The educational journeys of children in secure settings
- The Big Conversation Podcast – Episode 5 – Angela Salt, CEO, Girlguiding
- Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Children’s Commissioner’s Written Evidence
- Equal protection from assault for children - Briefing for the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
- The Big Conversation Podcast – Episode 4 – Rachel Treweek Bishop of Gloucester
- Children’s involvement in the 2024 riots
- Briefing for MPs on Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
- Help at Hand annual report 2023-2024
- The Big Conversation Podcast - Episode 3 - Ruth Marvel OBE, Chief Executive, Duke of Edinburgh
- Illegal Children’s Homes
- Deaths of children in need
- Hierarchy of needs for care experienced young people
- Children with complex needs who are deprived of liberty: Interviews with children to understand their experiences of being deprived of their liberty
- Children’s voices on mathematics
- The Big Conversation Podcast - Episode 2 - Melanie Dawes, Chief Executive, Ofcom
- What is this plan for? The purpose and content of children in need plans
- Supporting care experienced students: A handbook for professionals working in higher education
- “I’ve seen horrible things”: Children’s experiences of the online world
- Waiting times for assessment and support for autism, ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions
- The Big Conversation Podcast - Episode 1 - My Youth Ambassadors
- Children Missing Education: The Unrolled Story
- Strip searching of children in England and Wales: First complete dataset for 2018–2023, including new data July 2022-June 2023
- Children's experiences as victims of crime
- "What is a general election?" A resource for children and young people
- An Alternative Route: Post-16 support for young people attending Alternative Provision
- Child victims' access to advocacy
- The Big Ambition: Ambitions, Findings and Solutions
- Children’s Commissioner’s response to Ofcom’s Guidance for service providers publishing pornographic content
- Children's mental health services 2022-23
- Huge regional variation in support from children’s social services for some of England’s most vulnerable children
- Children’s Commissioner’s response to Ofcom’s ‘Protecting people from illegal harms online'
- Lost in Transition: The destinations of children who leave the state education system
- Digital playgrounds - Children's views on gaming
- Children's Commissioner's response to the Jay Review
- The state of children and young people’s advocacy services in England
- Unaccompanied children in need of care
- Children's Commissioner's briefing on the Victims and Prisoner's Bill
- Homeless 16- and 17-year olds in need of care
- Help at Hand annual report 2022-2023
- Missing Children, Missing Grades
- ‘We all have a voice’: Disabled children's vision for change
- Whistleblowing Report 2022-23
- The Children’s Commissioner’s response to ‘Youth vaping: call for evidence’
- Looked after children who are not in school
- Briefing for Peers on the Illegal Migration Bill
- Information sheet: Pornography and young people
- Evidence on pornography's influence on harmful sexual behaviour among children
- Briefing for MPs ahead of the report stage of the Illegal Migration Bill
- Business plan 2023-24
- Family contact in youth custody
- Strip search of children in England and Wales
- Illegal Migration Bill - priorities for Amendment drafting
- Briefing to MPs on Illegal Migration Bill
- Children's mental health services 2021-2022
- Statement from the Children’s Commissioner in response to the SEND Improvement Plan
- Attendance is everyone's business
- Conversation with Shammi Rahman: The importance of Religious Education
- ‘A lot of it is actually just abuse’- Young people and pornography
- Supported accommodation for children in care
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- Findings from The Big Ask: Children in Care
- A positive approach to parenting: Part 2 of the Independent Family Review
- Children’s Voices: Views on family from students at Ark Boulton Academy
- Education history and attendance
- The Children's Commissioner's submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
- What children need from an integrated alternative provision system
- Beyond the Labels: A SEND system which works for every child, every time
- Help at Hand Annual Report and Review
- Conversations with care leavers: Relationships in the care system podcast
- Vision for care leavers
- Vision for childcare
- Digital childhoods: a survey of children and parents
- Family and its protective effect: Part 1 of the Independent Family Review
- Strip search of children by the Metropolitan Police Service - new analysis by the Children’s Commissioner for England
- Reforming children's homes: a policy plan of action
- Back into school: New insights into school absence - evidence from three multi-academy trusts
- A Head Start: Early support for children’s mental health
- Voices of England's Missing Children
- Talking about Attendance
- Briefing to MPs on the Online Safety Bill
- Business Plan 2022-2023
- An inconsistent approach to SEND, findings from analysis of Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP) from two local authorities in England
- Ambition for all – our vision for a school system that works for all children
- Online Safety Commission from Government: Our recommendations for making the online world safer for children
- Where are England’s Children? Interim findings from the Children’s Commissioner’s Attendance Audit
- One year as Children's Commissioner: March 2021-March 2022
- Briefing on Children’s Mental Health Services – 2020/2021
- Children’s Social Care – putting children’s voices at the heart of reform
- Children's voices: Back to school
- Talking to your child about online sexual harassment: A guide for parents
- Guide to COP26 for children and slides for schools
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- Interim findings on Government’s commission on online peer-on-peer abuse
- Back to school guide
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- Five things you need to know about SEN in schools
- Building back better
- Characteristics of children entering care for the first time as teenagers
- Still not safe
- Detention of unaccompanied children arriving in Kent during 2020
- Children's Commissioner's podcast: Lockdown, school and football
- The state of children’s mental health services 2019/20
- Roadmap to reopening schools
- Too many at-risk children are still invisible to social care
- Child poverty: the crisis we can’t keep ignoring
- Routes to citizenship
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- Report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Are we there yet? Our rights, our say
- Briefing on the full Government response to the Online Harms White Paper
- School attendance since September
- Children's Commissioner podcast: Doncaster family hub
- Access denied: How end-to-end encryption threatens children's safety online
- Who are they? Where are they? 2020
- Children’s experiences in mental health wards
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- Gambling act review
- The children who no-one knows what to do with
- Private provision in children’s social care
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- School return: Covid-19 and school attendance
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- Tackling the disadvantage gap during the Covid-19 crisis
- Children, domestic abuse and coronavirus
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- The state of children's mental health services 2018/19
- Pass the parcel: children posted around the care system
- UK Children’s Commissioners’ UNCRC mid-term review
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- A Manifesto for Children
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- Children's Voices: Children’s experiences of instability in the care system
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- Keeping kids safe
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- Skipping school: Invisible children
- Children’s mental health briefing
- Who knows what about me?
- Pre-Budget Briefing Autumn 2018
- Estimating the number of vulnerable babies
- A Crying Shame
- A report on the use of segregation in youth custody in England
- Playing Out
- Children living in households with the 'toxic trio' - mental health issues, parental substance misuse and domestic abuse
- Annual Review 2017-18
- Childhood vulnerability in England 2018
- Kin and Country: Growing Up as an Armed Forces Child
- Public Spending on Children: 2000 to 2020
- A Night in the Cells
- Stability Index 2018
- Voices of Children in Foster Care
- Who cares?
- Forging futures through mentoring: A risk worth pursuing?
- Business Plan 2018-19
- Growing up North: A generation of children await the powerhouse promise
- Voices from the Inside
- Life in Likes
- Growing Up Digital In Care
- Briefing: Falling through the Gaps in Education
- Children’s Voices: The Wellbeing of Children excluded from Schools and in Alternative Provision
- Children's Voices: The Wellbeing of Children in Detention in England
- Children's Voices: The Wellbeing of Children Subject to Immigration Controls in England
- Children's Voices: The Wellbeing of Children involved in Gangs in England
- Children's Voices: The Wellbeing of Children with Mental Health Needs in England
- Briefing: Children’s Mental Healthcare in England
- Simplified social media terms and conditions for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and WhatsApp
- Rapid review of sources of evidence on the views, experiences and perceptions of children in care and care leavers
- Childhood vulnerability in England 2017
- Review of 2016-2017 and the year ahead
- The Case for a UNCRC General Comment on Children's Rights and Digital Media
- Briefing: the status of EU National Children in Britain
- Business Plan 2017-18
- Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
- Stability Index: Initial Findings and Technical Report
- Test Policy Name
- Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Growing up Digital
- The support provided to Young Carers in England
- Growing up North: Time to leave the North-South divide behind
- Family hubs: A discussion paper
- Lightning Review: Children's access to school nurses
- Delivering a care leavers' strategy for traineeships and apprenticeships
- Ambitious for Children 2016-17
- The impact of online pornography on children and young people
- Barnahus: Improving the response to child sexual abuse in England
- Independent advocacy for children and young people in care
- Lightning Review: Access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Independent Advocacy: Impact and Outcomes
- Speaking Up
- Safety First
- Speaking up: When children and young people want to complain about school
- Protecting children from harm
- Unlocking Potential
- 'If it's not better, it's not the end'
- Response to Home Office consultation on reforming support for failed asylum seekers
- Children's Commissioner responds to Youth Justice Board's expenditure in 2015/16
- Reforming support for failed asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants
- Family Friendly?
- Skype Families
- Ambitious for children (2015 report)
- State of the Nation: Children in Care
- Changing the Odds in the Early Years
- UK Commissioners UNCRC Report
- Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee's Seventh Periodic Review of the UK at the Committee's 114th Session
- Reducing the impact of low-income: Experiences of services
- Why rights matter
- Listen to Us
- My Life at School
- Views and Experiences of Children in Residential Special Schools
- An Adequate Standard of Living
- 'They still need to listen more'
- Policies for Low-Income Families
- 'I think you need someone to show you what help there is'
- Guide to the UNCRC
- Ten Points for Children in Care Councils to Monitor
- Closing a Children's Home
- Guide to Munro Review of Child Protection
- Child Rights Impact Assessment on Changes to Legal Aid since 2013
- Impact on Children of Legal Aid Changes
- 'It's a lonely journey'
- A Rights-Based Approach to Education
- Recommendations on Rights to Education
- 'It might be best if you looked elsewhere'
- What's going to happen tomorrow?
- Response to List Of Issues Submitted under Optional Protocol on sale of child pornography, etc.
- Working Together to Safeguard Children
- Inquiry into violence against women and girls
- Children's Care Monitor 2013-14
- Documentary Analysis of Education Policy
- Carlile Inquiry
- 'It's wrong but you get used to it'
- 'If only someone had listened'
- What we say we need
- 'Sex without consent, I suppose that is rape'
- 'It takes a lot to build trust'
- We want to help people see things our way
- Child Rights Impact Assessment
- Creating a Rights-Based Framework
- We want to help people see things our way: Matrix
- Feeling Safe, Keeping Safe
- Common Principles for a Child-Friendly Complaints Process
- Good practice in safeguarding and child protection in secondary schools
- Submission to Pre-Sessional Working Group of the UNCRC
- Basically Porn is Everywhere
- Child Rights Impact Assessment of Budget Decisions
- Child Rights Impact Assessment of Anti-Social Behaviour
- Always Someone Else's Problem
- Guide to Keeping Children Safe
- Guide to Good Corporate Parents
- Independent Reviewing Officer Guide
- 'We would like to make a change'
- 'They go the extra mile': Reducing inequalities in school exclusion
- Child Poverty Strategy Response
- Measuring Child Poverty
- Children and Families Bill Child Rights Impact Assessment
- 'I thought I was the only one in the world'
- Gang-associated sexual exploitation and sexual violence
- Inquiry into human rights of migrant children
- Right to Health
- Nobody Made the Connection
- Silent Voices
- You Have Someone To Trust
- Accelerated Report for Secretary of State for Education
- 'It takes a lot of courage'
- Why are they going to listen to me?
- The Fact of Age
- Inquiry into missing children: Response
- Children Safeguarding Performance Information
- Proposed model for Child Rights Impact Assessments
- Parliamentary briefing on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill
- 'They never give up on you'
- Child Rights Impact Assessment of Welfare Reform Bill
- Landing in Dover
- The Home Front
- UNCRC Resourse Pack
- Scoping Report on Advocacy Services
- 'I think I must have been born bad'
- Submission to the Munro Review of Child Protection
- Young People's Views on Safeguarding in the Secure Estate
- Young People's Views on Restraint in the Secure Estate
- Trying to get by
- 'Don't make assumptions'
- Children and Young People's Views of Education Policy
- Proposals for the Reform of Legal Aid in England and Wales
- Landing in Kent
- Submission to the Munro Review of Child Protection
- Joint response to 'Policing in the 21st Century'
- Alternatives to Detention
- Care Planning Placement and Case Review
- Children's Participation in Decision Making
- Report on the views of children and young people regarding media access to family courts
- Arrest and Detention of Children: Follow-Up Report
Corporate Governance
- Business Plan, 2025-26
- Whistleblowing
- Whistleblowing Report 2023-2024
- Advisory board
- Audit and risk committee
- Spend over £25,000: 2024 - 2025
- GPC spend over £500: 2024 - 2025
- Annual Report: 2023-2024
- Giving all children a voice: Children's Commissioner's three-year strategy
- Business Plan 2024-2025
- Delivering the Children's Commissioner's Strategy: 2021-2024
- Data protection impact assessment for The Big Ambition
- Spend over £25,000: 2023 - 2024
- GPC spend over £500: 2023 - 2024
- Spend over £25,000: 2022 - 2023
- Annual report 2022-23
- Business plan 2023-24
- Register of interests
- Annual report 2021-22
- Spend over £25,000: 2021 - 2022
- GPC spend over £500: 2022 - 2023
- Business Plan 2022-23
- GPC spend over £500: 2021 - 2022
- Data protection impact assessment for Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs)
- Annual report 2020-21
- Data protection impact assessment for The Big Ask
- Business plan 2021-22
- Help at Hand annual report 2020
- Spend over £25,000: 2020 - 2021
- Expenses and hospitality for 2020-21
- Expenses and hospitality policy
- GPC spend over £500: 2020 - 2021
- Annual report 2019-20
- Data protection impact assessment for use of DfE administrative records
- Business plan 2010-11
- Business plan 2011-12
- Business plan 2012-13
- Business plan 2013-14
- Business plan 2014-15
- Business plan 2015-16
- Business plan 2016-17
- Business plan 2017-18
- Annual report 2006-07
- Annual report 2007-08
- Annual report 2008-09
- Annual report 2009-10
- Annual report 2010-11
- Annual report 2011-12
- Annual report 2012-13
- Annual report 2013-14
- Annual report 2014-15
- Annual report 2015-16
- Annual report 2016-17
- Annual report 2017-18
- DfE framework agreement
- Memorandum of understanding between British and Irish Network of Ombudsman and Children’s Commissioners
- Publications scheme
- Freedom of information policy
- Data protection policy
- Business plan 2020-21
- Annual report 2018-19
- Complaints procedure
- Business plan 2019-20
- Tailored review 2019
- Business plan 2018-19
Press
- Press Notice: Child strip searched every 14 hours by police in England and Wales
- Commissioner responds to IOPC investigation into Child Q
- The Children's Commissioner launches new campaign to hear from children ahead of the General Election
- Young people with eating disorders on the rise in England
- ‘Invisible’ children in care are missing school every day, unique new data shows
- Statement from the Children's Commissioner on child sexual abuse redress scheme
- New support to tackle absence announced – statement in response from the Children’s Commissioner
- New evidence on pornography's influence on harmful sexual behaviour among children
- CCo statement on Illegal Migration Bill
- Children's Commissioner's speech to the National Association of Virtual School Heads
- Statement from the Children’s Commissioner in response to the SEND Improvement Plan
- Statement from the Commissioner on the legal age of marriage
- Children's Commissioner's speech to the NHS England Children and Young People Voice Summit
- Statement from the Commissioner
- CCo statement on government strategy for the implementation of the Care Review
- The Children's Commissioner speech at the Church of England Education Office and Foundation for Educational Leadership National Conference 2023
- Statement from the Children's Commissioner on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
- Statement on the Government's response to the draft Victims Bill
- Statement from the Commissioner on today's speech by the Prime Minister
- Speech from the Children's Commissioner to launch Part 2 of the independent Family Review
- The Children's Commissioner's Speech to NCASC Conference
- A statement on the Phase 1 report from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- A statement on the murder of Leiland-James Corkill
- The Children’s Commissioner’s response to the Queen’s Speech
- Speech by Dame Rachel de Souza at the Independent Children’s Homes Association's conference, June 2021
- Building back better - Anne Longfield's final speech as Children's Commissioner
- Statement on new EU ePrivacy rules and the implications for children
- Statement on today’s ruling by the Court of Appeal on removing safeguards for children in care
- Statement from Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield on this year’s GCSE results
- Statement from the Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, on A-Level results day
- Statement on changes to regulations affecting children’s social care
- Too many vulnerable young children are missing out on the vital speech and language help they need to get ready for school
- Anne Longfield's statement responding to the Prime Minister's comments on children's mental health
- Statement on the Government's latest plans to improve children's mental health services
- Anne Longfield responds to the Government's statement on fostering
- Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield’s statement on amendment to the Data Protection Bill
- Statement on the Manchester Bombing
- Joint statement on Calais refugee camp by Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England and Geneviève Avenard, France’s Children’s Commissioner
- Anne Longfield's statement following the conviction of Ben Butler for the murder of his daughter
- Anne Longfield's response to the 2016 Queen's Speech
- Statement on the conviction and sentencing of two girls for the murder of Angela Wrightson.
- Response from Anne Longfield to the Prime Minister’s speech about reforming adult prisons
- Head of Policy Graham Richie's speech at Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week
- Anne Longfield's speech to the National Policing of Children and Young People conference
- Statement on the launch of the NSPCC’s ‘It’s Time’ campaign
- Statement on Tackling Extremism
- UK Children’s Commissioners’ joint statement on tax credits
- Statement on A level results for 2015
- Statement on the closure of the College of Social Work
- Anne Longfield: The Queen's Speech and beyond
- Statement from Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner for England
- The Queen’s Speech
- Children's Commissioner's statement on National Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness Day