This report examines the financial pressures families face during school holidays and sets out how government policy can go further to ensure all children have access to food, activities and support—both during term time and beyond.

Our Good Childhood Report 2025, shows the latest trends in children's wellbeing.

This study explored how frontline professionals understand child financial exploitation based on their experiences of working with children and their families.

We spoke to young people to map how they see child poverty connecting to different parts of their childhoods and futures. Their experiences should be at the heart of government policy.

Our Good Childhood Report 2024, shows the latest trends in children's wellbeing.

We have now reviewed the manifestos from the three main parliamentary parties for England — The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

To mark mental health awareness week, BBC Children in Need, Health Foundation and Impact on Urban Health have presented £1 million to The Children’s Society as the beaming winners of the A Million & Me Award.

In this report we focus on the day-to-day impact of cost of living increases on children’s lives and the impact parents and carers believe the current economic situation may have on their children’s futures.

An estimated two million UK young people signal their top worry for the future as having enough money, reveals the latest research by The Children’s Society.

Investment in early support services for children has fallen over the last ten years with many of the poorest areas hardest hit.