Our proposals for a ‘Sure Start for Teenagers’ to protect and support vulnerable teenagers have been adopted by the Government to form the basis of their £100m ‘Young Futures’ hubs programme.
Our proposals for a ‘Sure Start for Teenagers’ to protect and support vulnerable teenagers have been adopted by the Government to form the basis of their £100m ‘Young Futures’ hubs programme.
Our long-running campaign to introduce a register of children who are ‘home-schooled’ is shortly to become law.
Our research calling for action to tackle the problem of a rising number of children arriving at school not meeting their development goals has since been adopted as one of the Government’s key policy milestones.
Our research and call for a supervised tooth-brushing programme in primary schools in the most deprived areas in England is now being rolled out by the Government.
Our campaign for a measure of inclusion to be included in Ofsted assessments has been adopted by the Government and Ofsted.
Our research on enrichment and attendance helped to make the case for an enrichment framework which the Department for Education has committed to developing.
Our calls for a new era of creativity in schools has since seen a package of investment in high-quality arts education and enrichment activities from the Department for Education.
Our joint Future Minds campaign with partners has driven children and young people’s mental health higher up the agenda, including as a top priority in 2025/26 NHS planning guidance.
Before the election, we called on the Government to expand Free School Meals to all children whose families receive Universal Credit. The Government confirmed this change in its Spring Statement 2025.
Our calls to increase investment in children’s social care to meet the level proposed in the MacAlister Review, to introduce family group conferencing, and to expand support to kinship carers have all been taken up by the Government.
