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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
June 4, 2025

Centre for Young Lives report puts forward a fresh vision for youth provision and reveals the huge financial and social benefits of investing in youth centres, youth workers, and activities for young people

Press Release
May 22, 2025

Centre for Young Lives report reveals London is powering ahead of the rest of England in delivering schools that leave fewer children behind as part of a new plan to boost inclusion and opportunity for all children

Press Release
April 30, 2025

Report calls for new strategy for children’s mental health services to tackle ‘perverse’ situation where NHS local spending prioritises treating bunions over supporting young people considering self-harm

Press Release
April 8, 2025

New FOI data reveals funding cuts to Family Hubs and children’s centres could put Government’s Opportunity Mission at risk

Press Release
March 14, 2025

Child of the North/Centre for Young Lives report urges ‘Britain’s kids have got talent’ drive in schools to boost opportunity and stop the pipeline of pop stars, actors and creatives becoming the preserve of the well-off

Press Release
February 24, 2025

Inquiry Report Calls On The Government To Restore School Playtime Amid Warning That Play Is Being Squeezed Out Of Children’s Lives

Press Release
February 18, 2025

New research reveals positive link between enrichment and tackling the school attendance crisis

Press Release
February 5, 2025

‘Future Minds Campaign’ Launches With New Research Warning The Trillion-Pound Cost Of Failing To Tackle The Children’s And Young People’s Mental Health Crisis Is Holding Back Government’s Growth Plans

Blog
February 3, 2025

The Play Commission - Six Months On

Blog
February 2, 2025

The Centre for Young Lives is One

Press Release
January 27, 2025

Centre for Young Lives and Mission 44 – Ambitious about Inclusion

Thoughts
December 17, 2024

Our response to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Blog
December 12, 2024

Centre for Young Lives submission to the NHS 10 year plan consultation

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

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