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News
October 21, 2026

Centre for Young Lives launches Growing Up Well Phase Two in West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester

News
February 19, 2026

Bold vision must be followed by system shifts - our framework for SEND reform in the Schools White Paper

Press Release
February 12, 2026

Launch of the “Young Creatives Commission” brings together top cultural talent for new national inquiry to boost young people’s access to arts, culture and the creative industries

Blog
February 11, 2026

Centre for Young Lives responds to the Milburn Review on young NEETs

Press Release
January 29, 2026

Centre for Young Lives launches new neighbourhood ‘Growing Up Well’ model to transform the system of support to tackle the mental health crisis facing children and young people

Press Release
January 28, 2026

Mumsnet survey reveals three-quarters of parents fear for children’s mental health as leading charities launch national crisis plan

Press Release
December 22, 2025

Centre for Young Lives publishes new ‘inclusion score’ to map inclusive schools in England

Press Release
December 18, 2025

Centre for Young Lives response to the VAWG Strategy

Blog
December 17, 2025

What does the first set of guidance for the Government’s new network of Best Start Family Hubs tell us?

Blog
December 12, 2025

No wrong door: How Young Futures Hubs can tackle the mental health crisis

Blog
December 10, 2025

The Government’s new Youth Strategy sets out an ambitious plan, by young people and for young people

News
December 10, 2025

Baroness Anne Longfield to chair the National Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs

Thoughts
December 1, 2025

What do the Government’s latest Early Years statistics tell us about the prospect of Ministers meeting their pledge to boost the number of five-year-olds reaching a good level of development?

Blog
November 27, 2025

What does the Budget mean for children and young people?

Press Release
November 26, 2025

Baroness Anne Longfield, former Children’s Commissioner and Executive Chair of the Centre for Young Lives, responds to the scrapping of the two child benefits limit

Call for Evidence
November 24, 2025

Centre for Young Lives launches 'looksmaxxing' call for evidence

News
November 21, 2025

Future Minds Campaign and Fund the Hubs publish new paper setting out the key principles for delivering an ‘in-reach’ mental health and wellbeing offer through the Government’s new Young Futures Hubs

Blog
November 6, 2025

The Curriculum and Assessment Review is good - and a step forward towards a more inclusive, holistic, and aspirational education system

Press Release
November 5, 2025

Centre for Young Lives report urges Government to embed Best Start Family Hubs in law and target new funding at England’s areas of greatest need and “childcare deserts”

Blog
October 27, 2025

Module 8 of the Covid Inquiry has confirmed children were an afterthought for the Government and shown why children need new rights and an apology

News
October 7, 2025

Baroness Anne Longfield’s oral and written evidence to the Covid Inquiry.

Press Release
October 2, 2025

Baroness Longfield calls for a formal Government apology to children for the damaging mistakes made during the Covid pandemic

Press Release
October 1, 2025

Centre for Young Lives sets out a new framework for effective delivery of the Government’s Young Futures Hubs to keep vulnerable teens safe from harm and support them to succeed

Press Release
September 29, 2025

The Centre for Young Lives publishes new research on the power of football to support children and young people and the impact of the Premier League Charitable Fund

Press Release
September 8, 2025

New report reveals almost half of children on free school meals were not ready for school in 2023/4

Press Release
July 25, 2025

Centre for Young Lives’ 2025 State of Childhood Vulnerability report warns the Covid pandemic is still casting a long shadow over millions of children in England five years on

Blog
July 15, 2025

Education and quarantine: experiences of the covid pandemic

Blog
July 9, 2025

The Centre for Young Lives responds to the Government's Early Years Strategy

Blog
June 16, 2025

The Centre for Young Lives responds to the Spending Review

Press Release
June 11, 2025

Inquiry Calls For a New National Play Strategy for England to Reclaim Childhood and Tackle the Scourge of Addictive Doom-Scrolling

News
June 10, 2025

Experts and practitioners back the Raising the Nation Play Commission’s call for a National Play Strategy in England

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