Anne Longfield is using the launch of her Vulnerability Report today to challenge leadership rivals Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt to use billions of pounds they have earmarked for tax cuts to "mend broken childhoods" instead.
The annual report, now in its third year, estimates around 2.3m children are growing up with a vulnerable family background, including those with parents with mental illnesses, addiction problems or domestic violence.
Of these, 1.6m receive either "patchy or no support at all", including 830,000 children who are "invisible" to services, the report claims.
The analysis also reveals fewer young people are receiving help, with a quarter of all spending on children now going on 1.1 per cent of those in need of acute and specialist services.
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