Child of the North: Building a better future after COVID-19

Child of the North: Building a better future after COVID-19

This report has been written by over 40 leading academics across the North of England. In his Foreword, Lemn Sissay OBE says:

‘It shows decades of under-funding in children’s services has had a devastating impact. That children in the region are more likely to grow up in poverty, in disordered families, more likely to be less active and eat worse food. And that poverty continues to grow meaning a child growing up in the North is facing enormous challenges their contemporaries in other areas of the country do not have to tackle.’

‘What is also crystal clear is that the pandemic has worsened these already poor outcomes further.’

Click here to read the report