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Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza said: “This is a truly harrowing case and today will be a very difficult day for all who loved Preston Davey. In delivering the sentences, the judge described the unimaginable cruelty of the crimes.

“I am clear that this is a failure of the state and the safeguarding system. The state decided Preston co...


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Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza said: “Children have told me time and again that they want to be protected online. My research showed that too many young people see pornography – and that the most common way to see it is accidentally on social media. Many children say they want to spend less time on their phones but struggle to put them down.


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I wrote last week about why we should listen to children. This week, I have found myself thinking about what it means to give children a voice. 

Sometimes, this is cultural. As I stood outside Nott...


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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 mess...


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Today’s guest blog comes from Sophie Andrews OBE, the CEO of Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice. Sophie has worked in the charity sector for 30 years and has operated in both National Chair and CEO roles. She was awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list. She is a published author and accomplished motivational speaker and her TEDMED talk has been viewed over 1.7m tim...


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