Asking for the earth

By Dame Rachel de Souza | 19 July 2022

At the heart of my role as Children’s Commissioner is listening to children. Last year, in The Big Ask, the largest-ever survey of children in England, I listened to half a million children about their hopes and fears for the future.

They are ambitious for the future! Children’s top priority was getting a good job or career.

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