The launch of the report ‘A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age’ has opened up the debate on childhood to everyone across the UK. Childhood is changing. As an organisation that works directly with some of the most disadvantaged children in the country, we’ve welcomed and embraced the report. For The Children’s Society, it has meant that we’ve had to look at our work with children, interpret the evidence submitted to the inquiry and describe how we wish to take forward our own work with and for children and young people.
The Children’s Society’s Vision for A Good Childhood for All is a culmination of our 128 years of experience. It is based on our learning from direct work with children and young people, research (both ours and that gathered for The Good Childhood® Inquiry), policy work and campaigning that has taken place over the life of The Children's Society.
The starting point of our Vision for A Good Childhood for All is what children and young people themselves have told us. Their views, aspirations and perceptions of their lives and the environment they live in is at the heart of this work and sets the future direction of our organisation. This document sets out our vision of what we would expect to see in society if all children were to have a good childhood. It expresses an inspiring and ambitious view of the world, a vision that we seek to achieve, working in partnership with others. It sets out the standards and principles that we should collectively strive to deliver for each and every child in the UK.
We’ve listened to children and young people. We’ve taken on responsibility to make childhood better and this document shares our vision of a good childhood for all.
Download and read our Vision for A Good Childhood for All.
Bob Reitemeier
Chief Executive
The Children’s Society
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