Taking The Big Future on the road: Listening to children in Carlisle

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Taking The Big Future on the road: Listening to children in Carlisle
Published May 14, 2026

Today, I am in Carlisle, starting a journey across England with a simple but important purpose: to hear directly from children about their lives. I want to find out what they love, what worries them and what they want decision makers to do to make childhood better. Far too often, decisions about childhood are made […]

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