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Every child deserves a route to a successful future

15 September 2026

“Things began to change because people invested their time in me” – Reflections on being NEET and why I wrote to the Prime Minister

10 September 2026

The need to give every young person a clear path to work

Priorities for the new Prime Minister: Views from my Youth Ambassadors on health, jobs, education and children’s social care

Statement from the Children’s Commissioner on new education reforms, including offering technical subjects to pupils from age 14

Statement from the Children’s Commissioner on the Milburn review of young people and work

Press Notice: Morning after local elections, Children’s Commissioner’s new polling shows teenagers uncertain about voting in the next general election and worried about the future, as she launched major national survey

A new youth advisory board to help shape the future of childhood

26 September 2025

Press Notice: Landmark census reveals schools picking up the pieces as other services neglected

8 September 2025

Listening to young people: Reflections from the National Youth Sector Advisory Board

Press Notice: Children are living in ‘Dickensian levels’ of poverty without their basic needs being met, Children’s Commissioner warns

Looking back at the Festival of Childhood

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