Chair of the National Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs. Founder Centre for Young Lives. Former Children’s Commissioner for England.
Yorkshire & London
Joined August 2009
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I’m proud & excited to launch the Centre for Young Lives - a new, dynamic, innovative, independent think tank & delivery unit dedicated excl to improving lives of children, young people & families. Join with us to make this country a great place to grow up centreforyounglives.org.uk/n…
NEW STATS on suspensions and exclusions 👇
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"Young people eligible for pupil premium who went to just one co-curricular session experienced an average attendance boost of 4.4 percentage points (from 82 to 86.4 per cent) over the course of a term"
V interesting case study from @ellencph
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Proud to host the Care Experienced Protected Characteristics group in Parliament today. Important stories, huge momentum. Powerful coverage on Sky at 8pm this eve. news.sky.com/story/the-final…
Thanks @TerryGalloway @ccwild79 @darrenpaffey @ChrisLawSNP and all the brilliant care experienced young people who attended.
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'You've got to treat children equally… You don't tell a child who's the third child, you're gonna have half the time at school. You don't tell them that the fourth child is going to have a third of the time.'
- Gordon Brown on scrapping the two-child limit for all kids.
ALT Gordon Brown speaking at CPAG event.
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There is a documentary coming out about a young care leaver called Nonita who committed suicide, the system failed her, the system is failing care leavers everyday.
For updates, and to join our group where you will have the opportunity to attend future meetings in the House of Lords. ngforms.co.uk/westminster
Best Start Family Hubs offer a fresh start for Sure Start. As plans for rollout quicken we've published a framework of what is important to get right - locating in areas of most need, high ambitions, proper funding & underpinning by law to protect them from being dismantled again
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Fully repealing the two-child limit on benefits is by far the best way to ensure fewer children are growing up in poverty.
Half measures have been mooted – from moving to a three-child limit to exempting working families – but our modelling reveals that they would all still lead to an increase in child poverty by the end of the decade.
Learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/qVc9CWs
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Scrapping the two-child limit in full would be 'a fresh, cost-effective, and morally unambiguous start to making the days better and the future brighter for kids up and down the country.'
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Great to meet Rebecca, Matthew and Aisha this morning to talk about young people's priorities in North East Lincs & Camden including the offer to care leavers. Come back soon!
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There are now almost a million NEETS (young people not in education, employment or training) aged 16-24.
This means by 2025, more than one-in-eight young people were NEET, up from one-in-nine in 2019.
ALT Chart showing number (left) and proportion (right) of young people aged 16-24 who are NEET: UK. According to the official ONS statistics, this reached 948,000 in April-June 2025, up by 140,000 (or 17 per cent) compared to the same period in 2019
I've asked govt to make an apology to children for the avoidable mistakes made during Covid by the last Government that affected their lives so badly & promise that they will be seen as a political & policy priority for our nation in the future. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c059…
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"Incentives have been built into the system that can reward exclusion and penalise schools that are inclusive," says @annelongfield as she cautions that racial inclusion is falling down the education agenda
Story below.
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Looking forward to giving evidence to @covidinquiryuk this morning. Children were overlooked or ignored for too much of the pandemic and we mustn't let that happen again.
New Young Future Hubs need to work hard to protect vulnerable teenagers and give them the opportunities and support to thrive. Here's our new framework for successful delivery with briefing webinar to follow shortly. Thanks to the Hadley Trust for your great support for this.
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We continue to support the scrapping of the harmful two-child benefit cap, which could lift 400,000 children out of poverty, and have urged the Government to lift it as part of their Child Poverty Action Plan
Scrapping two child cap 'on the table' says North East MP in deputy PM race ift.tt/a5dlTMz
Great to join @jon_severs @TesSafeguarding in Bristol yesterday for some important conversations about partnership, tackling vulnerability and supporting children to thrive.
