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Leading youth organisations to explore links between enrichment and school attendance in response to ‘absence epidemic’

October 14, 2024

Centre for Young Lives

NCS Trust (National Citizen Service), The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) and the Centre for Young Lives (CfYL) have partnered to explore the evidence linking participation in enrichment activities to improved academic attendance, amidst a rise in persistent absenteeism among young people.

Report urges Ministers to ignore ‘Nanny State’ critics and expand sugar taxes, ban sale of energy drinks to under 16s, and roll out teeth brushing programme in schools

September 23, 2024

Centre for Young Lives

Ignore ‘Nanny State’ critics and expand sugar taxes, ban sale of energy drinks to under 16s, and roll out national supervised toothbrushing programme in schools to tackle the crisis of tooth decay affecting millions of children – Child of the North/Centre for Young Lives report

Centre for Young Lives is named as a Core Participant for Module 8 of the Covid Inquiry

September 12, 2024

Centre for Young Lives

The five charities: Centre for Young Lives, the Child Poverty Action Group, Save the Children UK, Just for Kids Law and the Children’s Rights Alliance for England (known together as the Children’s Rights Organisations or CROs) have been selected as Core Participants for their expertise in children’s rights, inequalities and discrimination.

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Paul Lindley OBE

Entrepreneur, children’s campaigner & author

Jemeillia Murfin

Activist

Cathy Cresswell

Professor, University of Oxford

Connie Muttock

Head of Policy

Centre for Young Lives

Articles by

Leading youth organisations to explore links between enrichment and school attendance in response to ‘absence epidemic’

October 14, 2024

Centre for Young Lives

NCS Trust (National Citizen Service), The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) and the Centre for Young Lives (CfYL) have partnered to explore the evidence linking participation in enrichment activities to improved academic attendance, amidst a rise in persistent absenteeism among young people.

Report urges Ministers to ignore ‘Nanny State’ critics and expand sugar taxes, ban sale of energy drinks to under 16s, and roll out teeth brushing programme in schools

September 23, 2024

Centre for Young Lives

Ignore ‘Nanny State’ critics and expand sugar taxes, ban sale of energy drinks to under 16s, and roll out national supervised toothbrushing programme in schools to tackle the crisis of tooth decay affecting millions of children – Child of the North/Centre for Young Lives report

Centre for Young Lives is named as a Core Participant for Module 8 of the Covid Inquiry

September 12, 2024

Centre for Young Lives

The five charities: Centre for Young Lives, the Child Poverty Action Group, Save the Children UK, Just for Kids Law and the Children’s Rights Alliance for England (known together as the Children’s Rights Organisations or CROs) have been selected as Core Participants for their expertise in children’s rights, inequalities and discrimination.

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Anne Marie Canning

CEO, The Brilliant Club

Arti Sharma

CEO, nutureuk

Prof. Mark Mon Williams

Chair in Cognitive Psychology, University of Leeds & Prof of Psychology, Bradford Institute of Health Research

Dr Rob Hughes

Clinical Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine & CEO, TANDEM