A one-off mental health recovery programme, financed in part by a levy on social media companies and mobile phone providers.Re-establishing a Child Poverty Unit tasked with reducing and then ending child poverty to level up opportunities and life chances to all communities.
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Helping young people and their families out of poverty beginning with the uprating of family benefits in line with inflation, ending the two-child benefit cap, and the extension of free school meals to all families receiving Universal Credit.Responsibility for all young people policy goes to a renamed Department for Children, Schools and Families with leadership at Cabinet level. A national strategy to reduce risk should be drawn up and delivered, and monthly COBRA-style meetings held to drive and monitor progress. Recognising the crisis of teenage harm and violence is a national threat and is made a national priority by the Prime Minister.Established in and around schools, the hubs will be run by charities, public bodies, business, and philanthropy organisations.
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Setting an ambitious target of 1,000 Sure Start Plus Hubs by 2027 to co-ordinate and deliver health and education support for vulnerable teenagers.The Commission has chosen to incorporate the name 'Sure Start' as it is a well-recognised and well-respected programme, which it believes was a mistake to dismantle. A universal offer that is placed initially in the areas of greatest need and is a mechanism for bringing local services together and providing bespoke services for families and children who need it.
This would mainstream some the positive work of Violence Reduction Units, who are working with agencies in some hotspot areas now. The Commission proposes a new national action plan to protect those most at risk of exploitation and harm and to support all young people to leave education with improved life chances. It has also heard countless examples of children from suburban, middle-class England being groomed by criminals who have spotted a vulnerability and moved in with clinical ruthlessness. Over the last year, the Commission has heard from multiple professionals working with vulnerable children that many of these problems have become more extreme since the pandemic, including the ages of those running gangs becoming even younger. The report says there are already huge stresses on over-stretched services and the public purse due to a lack of early intervention, and that a combination of Covid, a cost-of-living crisis, and any return to austerity would be a gift to those who exploit children. It has been estimated that there could be as many as 200,000 children in England aged 11 to 17 who are vulnerable to serious violence. Those involved in gang activity and criminal exploitation are disproportionately young, vulnerable, and unknown to services. These numbers are likely to be just the tip of the iceberg. There were 11,600 instances where gangs were a factor and 10,140 instances where Child Criminal Exploitation was a factor. Government statistics published last week reveal that in 2021/22 there were over 16,000 instances in England where child sexual exploitation was identified by local authorities as a factor at the end of an assessment by social workers. The Commission warns that the failure of these systems to protect some of the most vulnerable children is allowing criminals and abusers to groom thousands of young people in England into county lines, gangs, and criminal activity. The Commission's report proposes a new 'Sure Start Plus for Teenagers' network of intervention and support as the centrepiece of a wide range of recommendations to government, the police, schools, and others to tackle the deep-rooted problems in the children's social care, education, family support, children's mental health, and criminal justice systems. Final report from Anne Longfield's Commission on Young Lives calls on Government to lead the fight back through 'Sure Start Plus', a national plan to prevent teenagers becoming involved in criminal exploitation, gangs, and serious violenceĪnne Longfield CBE, Chair of the Commission on Young Lives, is today publishing her year-long Commission's final report, 'Hidden in Plain Sight: A national plan of action to support vulnerable teenagers to succeed and to protect them from adversity, exploitation and harm'.
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