Opinion

Truths can be difficult to hear, but we must listen

I am often asked why my team and I focus on particular issues and not others that affect children and young people in England.

We are a small team on a tight budget. But decisions on our programme of work are based considerably on what children themselves have to tell us, as well as those who work with and speak for them, and research evidence.

We seek to find out where children’s rights are secured and assured; and where they are, by contrast, traduced by what adults either do or fail to do. Where is there resistance or refusal to ensure those rights are upheld?  Where do we most obviously let children down?

In recent weeks I have published two reports exemplifying different key issues. One was on the negative and too often unsupported effects on children of their parents’ relationship with alcohol. The second was on good safeguarding practice in primary schools.

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