
Official account for the independent Children's Commissioner for England @Rachel_deSouza.
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Today I launch my landmark dataset: The Childhood Lottery.📍
Children feel it's harder to grow up in some places than others. Now I've brought together the evidence showing what a child’s experience is like in every postcode.
Full report👉🏼 childrenscommissioner.gov.uk…
I was pleased to contribute to the Bell review. School is where children should feel safest. But I was shocked by the abuse and antisemitism faced by Jewish children. The recommendations must lead to better protection for children and more support for teachers.
The journey home from the hospital after being born is the most important one a child will make.📍
My speech from The Childhood Lottery event👉🏼childrenscommissioner.gov.uk…
Report, data set, map: childrenscommissioner.gov.uk…
Children's Commissioner for England retweeted
Brilliant conversation with @LucyMPowell about our plans for the coming months and bringing young people’s voices into everything government does - as #TheBigFuture survey enters its final few days 👇🏻
Children's Commissioner for England retweeted
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce: The ‘childhood lottery’ is stealing futures.
Rachel de Souza’s shocking report reveals children in England face a cluster crisis of poverty, education, wellbeing and inequality, but targeted action offers a way out
✍️ Frank Cottrell-Boyce
bit.ly/4jwZzNc
.@Rachel_deSouza 'We need to put children at the centre of devolution and ensure every area is held to account for children's outcomes.'
Read The Childhood Lottery report here👇🏼childrenscommissioner.gov.uk…
Children's Commissioner for England retweeted
Insights from @frankcottrell_b on how to fix the Childhood Lottery. ‘It’s time to turn the ship around’ .. @ObserverUK 👇🏻
observer.co.uk/news/opinion-…
I’ve launched my landmark dataset: The Childhood Lottery.
Huge thanks to my panel - Minister @Georgia_Gould; Prof Peter Fonagy; AC Laurence Taylor, Met; Tim Bowman, GMCA; Joanne McCartney, Dep Mayor London.
The stars were my Youth Ambassadors who expertly grilled the panel.
Here’s the link to the report and dataset.
👉🏼 childrenscommissioner.gov.uk…
📍The launch event of my report 'The Childhood Lottery' begins shortly this afternoon, joined by my fantastic guest speakers.
Follow the event on our socials.
Haven't read the report or explored the interactive map? Find it here:
childrenscommissioner.gov.uk…
Georgia Gould: The Child Lottery exposes how infrastructure around children and families has been cut back. Gov working to help young people thrive across the board. Young people tell me they want decisions taken closer to home by local leaders, so services respond to challenges.
Children's Commissioner for England retweeted
As Education Secretary, I am fully focused on closing the gaps that appear, even in early childhood.
Reimagining childhood and rewiring the state so that outcomes for children drive what we do - that’s what this government is all about.
'Postcode lottery' driving children's inequality in England, commissioner warns bbc.in/4Bwx7ld
Children's Commissioner for England retweeted
Ahead of The Childhood Lottery publication tomorrow, @Rachel_deSouza tells @ObserverUK why childhood must be a national priority and why devolution must deliver for children in every postcode.
Full story 👇
observer.co.uk/news/national…
The Observer issue no. 12,254: The childhood lottery
Where you grow up really matters. From unsafe streets to failing schools, a groundbreaking study exposes the vast inequalities of childhood in England, prompting the children’s commissioner to declare a ‘national emergency’, by Rachel Sylvester.
Plus:
Observer Sport: 60 years on, Rugby remembers Aberfan
Heist at the museum in Observers needed
New Review: The great attention crisis. Have our phones rewired our brains?
Is Dad ready for the end of the world? How millennial fathers became the new kings of prepping in Obs Magazine
Pick up a copy today, available nationwide. Subscribe to get a copy of The Observer delivered right to your door every week - link in bio.

























