Dame Rachel de Souza, who took over from Anne Longfield as children’s commissioner last month wants the results from the survey, called “The Big Ask”, to feed into her Childhood Commission – due to be published later this year.
She has described the report as a once in a generation review of the future of childhood, inspired by the ambition of William Beveridge’s pioneering 1940s report, which laid the foundations of the post-War social security system.
The survey, which will run for one month, from today (19 April) until 19 May, will be made available to every school in England, with schools encouraged to use it during classes and assemblies. It will be accompanied by an online assembly introduced by England international footballer Marcus Rashford.
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