1/4 My duty as @ChildrensComm is to make sure any child, no matter where they come from, receives the right support & protection. As such, I’m deeply concerned about the measures in the Bill. It is opaque on what it means for children, their rights & experiences.
Dame Rachel de Souza
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Children’s Commissioner for England @ChildrensComm, Educationalist and social reformer, personal account
- Parents have right to know what’s taught about sex. I strongly agree with @thetimes on this - here are the recommendations I made to @educationgovuk on RSHE materials childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/blog/children-… thetimes.co.uk/article/64626d…
- Here’s my first message as I begin my term as Children’s Commissioner for England and ‘there isn’t a moment to lose’
- Fantastic to see Tony Hudgell, aged just 9 receive such a well deserved honour from the King. Huge congratulations to him for his amazing charity & work to prevent any other child experiencing abuse like he did. 🏅🏅🙌🙌⬇️⬇️
- ‘No ifs or buts’ we must prioritise children and get them all back to school at the start of the new term & school year. Spot on from David Blunkett @Telegraph
- I'm determined to find the lost children who haven't returned to school/never been in the system. Grateful to all the LAs, School Trusts, safeguarding partnerships & @educationgovuk for their help. I'm meeting LAs today & written to ALL of them. Will not stop until this is sorted🔴 Thousands of children have “fallen off the radar”, a government tsar has warned as she launches an inquiry to track down youngsters who are not in the classroom telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/1…
- The Children’s Commissioners of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have written to the PM today calling for safe passage of refugee children from Ukraine to the UK. bit.ly/3vymcrg
- More than a quarter of secondary pupils ‘persistently absent’ these figures lay bare the scale of the school attendance crisis. 3 yrs on from the pandemic, school absences remain at unprecedented highs. We are failing to get children back to school. 1/2
- We need to put children at the heart of recovery from the pandemic by ensuring they’re back at school/in quality education. We need to listen to them to understand the barriers they face & ensure we do what’s needed to support them.This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
- Heartbreaking to read this and a most dreadful loss. Thoughts and prayers with Ruth Perry's family, colleagues, pupils and families. Our headteachers are a national treasure - educating the next generation. We must listen to them and support them. independent.co.uk/news/uk/ofsted…
- Please read this piece. It is what I see as I visit schools & services for children around the country. Thank goodness for dedicated tenacious leaders like Mr Potts. Education & the services supporting children need to be a top national & Gov priority
- Replying to @Rachel_deSouza4/4 I am seeking urgent clarity from the Home Office on the specific provisions in the Bill and what they will mean for children, whose rights as set out in the UNCRC must have absolute primacy.
- We asked children to make a huge sacrifice to help control the virus and now we need to give them something back with much needed support for their education and well being. Time to put children at the heart of our decision making as we come out of lockdown.More than 200,000 pupils will move from primary school to secondary school this autumn without being able to read properly, according to unpublished government figures. thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…
- ‘Children are the least likely to be affected by the virus but they have taken the worst hit’ - that’s why I’m launching #TheBigAsk survey on Monday @ChildrensComm



