Will new PM step up for children?

Today, a new Prime Minister enters Number 10, accompanied by the usual fanfare of promises to make life better for people across the country.

Here at the National Children’s Bureau, our attention will not be on those grand visions and the chatter those pledges generate over the coming weeks, but on the concrete actions that will make a real and lasting difference for those most at risk.

While the Conservative Party has spent the summer focussed on who will be its new leader, children and their families and carers have had to cope with the stress of exams, anxiety about how they will pay their bills, and the fear that health and social care services may not be able to provide the support they need. Uncertainty has spread through the system as important legislation on children’s social care, special educational needs and disabilities, and online harms has been thrown into doubt.