Roundtable with Rachel de Souza, The Children’s Commissioner
The Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle
In November, we are holding an in-person roundtable where we will be joined by a guest speaker, Dame Rachel de Souza, The Children’s Commissioner.
Dame Rachel de Souza is the Children’s Commissioner for England. The Children’s Commissioner recently launched ‘The Big Ambition’, a national survey of children and young people across England. The Big Ambition aims to take children’s thoughts, opinions and ideas to decision-makers, in the lead up to the next general election. The results of the survey were published in March 2024.
Our roundtables now have a more strategic focus, looking in detail at individual policy issues and showcasing the solutions and good practice in our region, allowing North East schools to ‘lead not plead’. Conversations at these roundtables will inform Schools North East’s policy lobbying work, and help us refresh our recommendations in our 2019 Manifesto for North East Education.
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Event Overview
Dame Rachel de Souza
The Children's Commissioner for England
Dame Rachel de Souza is the Children’s Commissioner for England.
Dame Rachel is a nationally recognised educator and advocate for improving the life chances of disadvantaged children. Before her appointment as Children’s Commissioner, she led two schools from failing to outstanding, before founding and
leading the Inspiration Trust, a family of fourteen schools in East Anglia. The Trust was twice ranked as the nation’s top group of comprehensive schools based on pupil progress at GCSE. She was made a Dame in 2014 for services to education.
Dame Rachel was appointed Children’s Commissioner in 2021. In this role she has unique legislative powers, is an advocate for children across the country, and represents children’s needs across Government. In role, Dame Rachel has completed the largest-ever survey of children ‘The Big Ask’ with over half-a-million responses. This work led to a commission from Government to look at representing children’s voice in the Online Safety Bill, an ongoing piece of work into driving up Attendance in schools, and was asked to complete the Family Review by Government.
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