The Big Future: Speaking to children in Birmingham

I have been thinking about politics a great deal as I travel the length of England promoting my survey of children The Big Future. I don’t mean what happens in Westminster, or what dominates the news. I mean the messy and beautiful business of how we go about deciding how we live together. Last week, I was in Preston, and […]

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Aug 17, 2026

Press Notice: Violence-fixated children referred to Prevent, and then sent back again – Children’s Commissioner demands reform of anti-extremism programme

Two-thirds of Prevent referrals for children made by schools and colleges were returned to education settings – and in almost all of these the cases (93 per cent) the children received no support from Prevent. The Children’s Commissioner’s latest report draws on new data, interviews with professiona...

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The importance of listening to young people and why it must be central to the government’s plans for children  

“The government should listen to children’s ideas more and children shouldn’t have to pass their idea to an adult to make it happen … Children should be able to change the world too.”– Girl, 11.  As Children’s Commissioner, it’s my job to listen to children and make sure their voice...

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The Big Future: Speaking to children in Bournemouth

The first child I spoke to at Bournemouth Football Club was beaming. The day before he had scored a hat-trick in a final at a competition, in Fulham. When I asked a second girl what the best thing about playing football here – at AFC’s Impairment Under 12s – I was told about her improvement: “...

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