Stepping up for her six-year tenure as children’s tsar today (1 March), De Souza, a former head teacher and founder of a multi academy schools trust, warns that “children’s futures are on the line” due to the Covid-19 pandemic, government funding cuts and rising poverty.
“In terms of economic, social and cultural shocks – in terms of deaths – this is a post-war generation in all but name,” she says in a blog marking her first message as children’s commissioner.
However, she goes on to note that: “My predecessors have also started at epochal moments in recent history, whether a financial crisis, or defining our future as a nation, and managed to keep a political focus on the needs of children."
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