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Press Release
July 9, 2026

New report urges Andy Burnham to end 40 years of school competition and calls for new era of place-based inclusion

Thoughts
December 5, 2024

Centre for Young Lives submission to the Curriculum and Assessment Review

Press Release
December 3, 2024

Centre for Young Lives report warns poverty and hardship are preventing some children from attending school amid big increases in persistent and severe absence among children receiving Free School Meals 

Press Release
November 29, 2024

Child of the North/Centre for Young Lives report warns thousands of vulnerable children at risk of criminal exploitation and urges Government to roll out Young Futures in disadvantaged areas

Blog
November 18, 2024

A significant step forward – Anne Longfield’s response to the Government’s announcement on children’s social care

Blog
November 4, 2024

Time for Government to put more flesh on the bones of its opportunity mission for children

Press Release
October 25, 2024

Call for new era of school inclusion and belonging as attendance crisis report warns children in the North and children with SEN are more likely to be persistently missing school

Press Release
October 14, 2024

Leading youth organisations to explore links between enrichment and school attendance in response to ‘absence epidemic’

Press Release
October 4, 2024

Child of the North/Centre for Young Lives report urges Government to tackle crisis in preschool provision amid warnings that hundreds of thousands of children are not ‘school ready'

Press Release
September 13, 2024

Report urges Ministers to ignore ‘Nanny State’ critics and expand sugar taxes, ban sale of energy drinks to under 16s, and roll out teeth brushing programme in schools

Press Release
September 9, 2024

Centre for Young Lives is named as a Core Participant for Module 8 of the Covid Inquiry

Press Release
August 23, 2024

New Child of the North/Centre for Young Lives report calls for ‘digital vaccination’ for all children to tackle tsunami of fake news and disinformation and close the digital divide

Press Release
July 26, 2024

Ministers urged to put early identification and support of children with SEND at the heart of a new strategy to boost school attendance and end families’ ‘traumatic’ battle for support

Thoughts
July 18, 2024

Our response to the rise in the number of school exclusions and suspensions

Thoughts
July 17, 2024

Our response to the King’s Speech

Press Release
June 25, 2024

Centre for Young Lives calls for review into impact of smartphones and social media and for the scrapping of two-child benefit cap in ten point plan for a new government

Blog
June 11, 2024

Paul Lindley OBE writes about the launch of the Raising The Nation Play Commission

Press Release
June 9, 2024

Ella’s Kitchen Founder Paul Lindley and Centre for Young Lives announce landmark inquiry with warning developers and councils could face future legal challenge over failure to provide places for children to play

Press Release
May 24, 2024

Child of the North/Centre for Young Lives report calls for schools to be supported to fix the broken school food system and boost physical activity to tackle Britain’s child obesity crisis

News
May 21, 2024

Visiting Fellow Professor Hannah Smithson gives evidence to SEND, Neurodivergence, and Youth Justice investigation

News
May 16, 2024

Young Lives Big Ambitions - Transforming Life Chances for Vulnerable Children and Teens By Anne Longfield

Press Release
May 10, 2024

Child of the North/Centre for Young Lives report calls for schools to be at the centre of a ‘fresh start for Sure Start’

Press Release
April 26, 2024

Call to rocket-boost children’s mental health support through schools as half of school children in England set to miss out on help

Call for Evidence
April 24, 2024

Call For Evidence: An Aspirational Vision For Inclusive Schools

TES Article
April 2, 2024

The Centre for Young Lives is delighted to be joined by visiting fellow Jonny Uttley

Press Release
March 15, 2024

Government must support schools to take the battle against child poverty inside the school gates, new Child of the North/Centre for Young Lives report urges

Blog
March 8, 2024

Where was the long-term plan for children and families in the Budget?

Blog
March 7, 2024

United in prevention - how Greater Manchester is aligning its violence prevention and education offer to achieve better outcomes for all our children

Press Release
February 2, 2024

New analysis reveals autism assessment and support crisis with tens of thousands of children waiting months and years for help after demand rockets by over 300% since Covid

Blog
February 2, 2024

Anne Longfield launches the Centre for Young Lives

Long Read
January 29, 2024

A new social contract with our vulnerable children and families

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