Anne Longfield

I’m proud & excited to launch the Centre for Young Lives - a new, dynamic, innovative, independent think tank & delivery unit dedicated excl to improving lives of children, young people & families. Join with us to make this country a great place to grow up centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/an…

Great to see the ongoing positive impact of our Raising the Nation Play Commission. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

A response from @annelongfield to today’s Covid Inquiry Module 2 report.

NEW STATS on suspensions and exclusions 👇

"Young people eligible for pupil premium who went to just one co-curricular session experienced an average attendance boost of 4.4 percentage points (from 82 to 86.4 per cent) over the course of a term" V interesting case study from @ellencph tes.com/magazine/teach…

Thanks @TerryGalloway @ccwild79 @darrenpaffey @ChrisLawSNP and all the brilliant care experienced young people who attended.

Proud to host the Care Experienced Protected Characteristics group in Parliament today. Important stories, huge momentum. Powerful coverage on Sky at 8pm this eve. news.sky.com/story/the-fina…

'You've got to treat children equally… You don't tell a child who's the third child, you're gonna have half the time at school. You don't tell them that the fourth child is going to have a third of the time.' - Gordon Brown on scrapping the two-child limit for all kids.

There is a documentary coming out about a young care leaver called Nonita who committed suicide, the system failed her, the system is failing care leavers everyday. For updates, and to join our group where you will have the opportunity to attend future meetings in the House of Lords. ngforms.co.uk/westminster

More on our report on Best Start Family Hubs from @cypnow. cypnow.co.uk/content/news/e…

Best Start Family Hubs offer a fresh start for Sure Start. As plans for rollout quicken we've published a framework of what is important to get right - locating in areas of most need, high ambitions, proper funding & underpinning by law to protect them from being dismantled again

We’ve spent the last 18 months banging the drum for enrichment to be a core part of children’s learning and development, so we welcome the proposals in the Curriculum Review. Schools will now need support to deliver it. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Fully repealing the two-child limit on benefits is by far the best way to ensure fewer children are growing up in poverty. Half measures have been mooted – from moving to a three-child limit to exempting working families – but our modelling reveals that they would all still lead to an increase in child poverty by the end of the decade. Learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/qVc9CWs

Scrapping the two-child limit in full would be 'a fresh, cost-effective, and morally unambiguous start to making the days better and the future brighter for kids up and down the country.' labourlist.org/2025/11/abolis…

Great to meet Rebecca, Matthew and Aisha this morning to talk about young people's priorities in North East Lincs & Camden including the offer to care leavers. Come back soon!

There are now almost a million NEETS (young people not in education, employment or training) aged 16-24. This means by 2025, more than one-in-eight young people were NEET, up from one-in-nine in 2019.

Today’s DfE stats on pupil absence show a welcome fall in persistent absence, but another increase in severe absence. Pupils eligible for free school means remain over three and half times more likely to be severe absentees than those not eligible.

Young Futures - the government's ambitious "Sure Start for Teenagers" programme - could transform outcomes for girls and young women. Together with @Agenda_alliance @IPPR we've set out how to break down the barriers facing girls and young women. Read more: ippr.org/articles/meeti…

I've asked govt to make an apology to children for the avoidable mistakes made during Covid by the last Government that affected their lives so badly & promise that they will be seen as a political & policy priority for our nation in the future. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"Incentives have been built into the system that can reward exclusion and penalise schools that are inclusive," says @annelongfield as she cautions that racial inclusion is falling down the education agenda Story below. tes.com/magazine/news/…