Commission launched by Anne Longfield to prevent young people being targeted for gangs
A year-long commission to develop a new system to stop the ‘conveyor belt’ of vulnerable young people becoming involved in gangs and the criminal justice system has been established by the former children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield.
The Commission on Young Lives will devise a new and achievable national system of support, focused on [...]
Former children’s commissioner launches legal claim against TikTok over privacy breaches
Former children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield is launching a billion pound claim against social media platform TikTok for illegally collecting children’s private information.
Former children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield
The legal claim launched against TikTok and parent company ByteDance is on the basis that they have for illegally collected children’s personal information while they [...]
Former children’s commissioner raises concerns over children in secure settings
Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield has raised alarm bells about the treatment of children and young people in secure settings.
Ms Longfield, who stepped down from her role this month, has written to Vicky Ford MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families, Lucy Frazer QC MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Justice [...]
Building back better post Covid should be focused around children
The government’s pledge to ‘build back better’ and ‘level up’ after the Coronavirus pandemic is just a slogan unless it focuses on children, the children’s commissioner has warned.
The prime minister and all political parties should set a clear goal that’s about children’s lives, not the institutions they attend, Anne Longfield said in her final speech [...]
Gang exploitation shows ‘no sign of abating’
A lack of coordination between different agencies responsible for helping to keep vulnerable children safe is leaving them at risk of exploitation, a report by the children’s commissioner for England has found.
In her report assessing how effectively existing infrastructure within local authorities is being used to deliver [...]
Mental health services are not meeting the needs of many hundreds of thousands of children
The expansion of children’s mental health services over the past four years is welcome but, such was the poor starting point, services are still nowhere near meeting the needs of many hundreds of thousands of children.
This is the stark warning from the children’s commissioner for England in her fourth annual report on the state of [...]
