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Good Childhood Inquiry

 

More than 1000 professionals, parents, children and young people submitted evidence to The Children’s Society’s Good Childhood Inquiry within its first month. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is the patron of the Inquiry, which aims to discover what children, young people and adults think makes for a good childhood.

The call for evidence ended in November but evidence from children and young people will be accepted throughout the inquiry. Evidence can be submitted through a secure area of the inquiry website, by email or sent to The Children's Society in hard copy. There are special resources for use with children and young people on the inquiry’s website.

An independent inquiry panel will be chaired by Professor Judith Dunn of the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College, London, and include Professor Lord Layard, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, Professor Sir Albert Aynsley-Green, Children’s Commissioner for England, and Bishop Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester and Chair of The Children's Society Board of Trustees. It will meet regularly to consider written and oral evidence on six themes - family, health, friends, values, lifestyle and learning – publishing a final report with recommendations in the autumn of 2008.

Read more about the inquiry at www.goodchildhood.org.uk or submit evidence to goodchildhood@childrenssociety.org.uk