Radical reforms in the wake of the pandemic should include rebuilding a government department that looks more widely at children, schools and families, says the departing children’s tsar.
A recovery programme is not possible ‘without helping the families to help the kids’, according to Anne Longfield, who leaves her role as children’s commissioner at the end of this month.
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