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We're pleased to announce that former Home Secretary
@sajidjavid
will head up a new CSJ commission on child sexual abuse. The commission will leave 'no stone unturned' in getting to the bottom of this awful crime.
Disappointed to hear the government is planning to withdraw the £20 uplift to Universal Credit. A missed opportunity. The need for a proper, coherent poverty strategy has never been greater. As we emerge from the pandemic, we must support those who have suffered most.
Former Home Secretary
@sajidjavid
will be joining us to lead a new "no holds barred" investigation into child sexual abuse in Britain.
We will leave 'no stone unturned' in getting to the bottom of this awful crime.
📻LISTEN: |
@BBCRadio4
|
@BBCr4today
Delighted to announce our 'Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation Commission' of experts from various fields chaired by
@sajidjavid
.
Together, we are determined to turn the tide on these horrific crimes and protect children from harm.
💥 NEW REPORT:
#UnsafeChildren
Child sexual abuse is nothing short of an epidemic in the UK. Children are suffering in silence and perpetrators are operating with impunity.
We must put a stop to this now.
➡️ Full report: |
@sajidjavid
‘These findings highlight all too clearly the calamitous impact school closures have had and demonstrates a real social injustice in our education system."
@Halfon4HarlowMP
, chairman of the Commons Education Select Committee
You can read the report here:
🚨Risk that some schools are deliberately excluding less academic children to improve exam results.
📈Our latest reports reveal record-high suspensions, surpassing half a million
🚸 Highest rates of suspensions & exclusions at largest Multi-Academy Trusts.
📚Read our latest
We are delighted to announce that
@JahnineDavis
will be joining our CSA/E Commission, bringing a wealth of experience and expertise on safeguarding black British young people.
Great to see Miriam Cates in
@CommonsEd
endorsing
@CSJthinktank
’s report on families and childcare, Parents Know Best. We call on the Government to give parent’s a real choice in childcare 👏🧵
“Too many kids are forced into home education, especially children with special educational needs,”
Such an important point from Rob Halfon
@halfon4harlowMP
"The CSJ found that the number of people in the most severe forms of problem debt has risen by a third since the start of the pandemic... 8 million people are so worried about falling further into debt that they'd rather skip Christmas altogether"
@JoeShalam
tells
@CamillaTominey
Deeply concerning the Government is now considering not uprating benefits for the poorest in line with inflation.
This will deliver a cut which households on low incomes simply cannot afford.
🧵
Liz Truss faces open cabinet revolt over plans to uprate benefits with wages instead of inflation
Penny Mordaunt tells
@MattChorley
it 'makes sense'. 'We are not trying to help with one hand & take away with another'
Chloe Smith has deep reservations
Two Nations: The State of Poverty in the UK
The
#SocialJusticeCommission
has travelled the length and breadth of the UK, hearing from some of the most disadvantaged communities about what's holding them back in life.
📚Read the report👇
🚨 NEW REPORT:
#DisabilityCommission
1/6 | Now is the opportunity to create lasting positive change to the life chances of disabled people.
Our report makes recommendations across 5 core areas of life, showing where improvements can be made.
➡️ Report:
"The only people who would benefit from Khan's plan [to decriminalise cannabis] are the gangs. Families suffer, young people see their prospects and their health wrecked, and society bears the cost."
@AndyCook_CSJ
Just finished — a fantastic event with an all-star panel discussing education and the lost children of lockdown.
Special thanks to our brilliant chair
@CamillaTominey
🤩🤩
🚨 NEW REPORT:
#CloseToHome
🏠
CSJ Head of Housing & Financial Inclusion,
@JoeShalam
explains why we need a national Housing First programme to end rough sleeping in England.
You'll also hear from Grace who has used this life-changing service.
➡️ Read:
"The CSJ Foundation will link the backstreets of this nation with the corridors of power. And I'm incredibly excited by enabling this to happen."
@AndyCook_CSJ
, Chief Executive on today's launch.
Find out more at and follow
@CSJFoundation
🚨NEW REPORT:
#NotAGame
makes the case for consumer protection from problematic gambling:
✅A ban on gambling advertising.
✅A regulatory body offering protection.
✅Data-driven affordability checks with banks playing a greater role.
➡️Full report:
We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for the CSJ Awards 2019! Do you know a frontline, poverty-fighting charity that could benefit from winning £10,000? Get them to apply here:
#CSJAwards2019
"when it comes to schooling, the Prime Minister would be better off making sure children stay in school in the first place, regardless of what they are studying." Quite right
@CamillaTominey
👏
Sunak is forgetting the lost children of lockdown
Too many vulnerable children are being cast to our peripheral vision, into alternative school provision, where their life prospects lie hostage to fortune.
Read our new report here on how to transform school exclusions and the support that exists beyond:
We must build on the existing successful pilots to ensure that domestic abuse victims and their children can have housing and can have wraparound support.
"This is what social justice would look like."
@CristinaOhq
📚Read our report, Home for Good 👇
OUT NOW |
#ALevelPlayingField
🔹 Obesity-related illnesses cost the NHS £6b a year.
🔹 32.9% of young people do less than 30 mins of activity per day.
🔹 £1.5 billion – the cost of extending the school day for an extra two hours.
➡️ Report:
📢 NEW REPORT –
It Still Happens Here: Modern Slavery in the UK in the 2020s
In partnership with
@justiceandcare
, our latest report can reveal that Britain has at least 100,000 slaves – ten times the official figure.
➡️ Watch here:
An important step from
@Apple
- announcing new measures to detect abuse images without compromising private online settings.
Our report “Unsafe Children” chaired by
@sajidjavid
called for tech to step up to this challenge to protect exploited children.
.
@CSJthinktank
welcomes the Chancellor's commitment today to targeting support to those most in need. They need stability as much as the markets. We trust this includes fulfilling the commitment to uprate benefits for the poorest in line with inflation.
Deeply concerning the Government is now considering not uprating benefits for the poorest in line with inflation.
This will deliver a cut which households on low incomes simply cannot afford.
🧵
'Work is the best route out of poverty.The CSJ first conceived Universal Credit to make work pay. It's great to see the taper rate cut to 55p, inline with our original design.This simple but radical step will allow working families to keep more of their hardearned cash.'
#budget21
Thanks to
@nazirafzal
for making important contributions to an honest and serious discussion of
#csetoday
, and the support needed for survivors of
#cse
.
Great to see
@sajidjavid
speaking out in Parliament on his role leading the CSJ commission on child sexual exploitation and abuse.
As the govt launches the online harms bill we need to have the toughest laws in place to protect children
@OliverDowden
A great speech from
@MPIainDS
earlier today regarding clause 47, Nationality and Borders Bill.
"The CSJ wrote the first big paper about modern day slavery... and [the UK] was the first country in the World that acknowledged and legislated for it. We should be proud of that."
💥Almost a billion schooldays lost during the pandemic so far
📚a typical pupil has lost almost half a year of education.
The
@MailOnline
covers new CSJ data that calculates the total amount of lost education so far…👇
via
@MailOnline
🗣️Give kids a “Right to Sport” to help boost engagement and reduce crime.
📌Led by the PM, funded in part by soaring bank profits.
📚Read our report, Game Changers 👇
💥 OUT TODAY |
#TheGreatRecovery
The Economic Deal: “Unsurprisingly, it is low income & low skilled households that are most vulnerable to losing work & an income. Getting Britain working again must be the first priority for Government.”
➡️ Read here:
CSJ report out today finds:
🏠 A quarter of people find it difficult to pay monthly housing costs, rising to 43% of private renters.
🏠 Housing benefit is set to cost £30 billion next year, double the entire policing budget.
We can put this right.
📢 NEW
#CSJDisability
Commission.
Our new commission is led by Lord Shinkwin with commissioners from business, politics & the charitable sector. To kick off our work, Lord Shinkwin and the
@FoundationDFN
have released new polling on disability.
POLLS:
📢 LATEST REPORT: Family Structure Still Matters
We will compare the overall trends of cohabiting couples with those of married couples – same sex as well as heterosexual – assessing their differences in stability, quality and outcomes.
➡️ Read here:
“If we get the first two years of a child's life right, they're far more likely to go on and succeed and thrive in every other area of life.”
We need to “say the primary job in the first three years is to give that child the best start in life.”
@miriam_cates
📚
Spot on and right out of the CSJ playbook.
@JudithWoods
gets it spot on in the
@Telegraph
.
To make this happen we need a longer school day with a focus on sport ⚽️🏀🏈🏆
👇
“The decline of manufacturing lies at the heart of regional inequality. A bigger, more dynamic manufacturing sector would unlock UK productivity and power economic growth.”
@gavinantonyrice
🤔There's been lots of recent confusion around the near 100,000 so-called "ghost children" who are severely absent from school following the first lockdown.
This thread seeks to set the record straight on what the data shows and what we actually know🧵
💥Excellent news.
@SarahChampionMP
deserves great credit. She fought for this recommendation as a Commissioner of our Unsafe Children report - chaired by
@sajidjavid
- and has continued to campaign for it. Good on
@JamesCleverly
too. 👏
Wow! Home Secretary has agreed to accept my new law to prevent registered sex offenders changing their name to avoid detection. Would have liked some notice, & him not to have nicked it, but a big win regardless!
83% of UK charities have an income of £100,000 or less. It is these charities that work night and day with our most vulnerable individuals.
We need urgent action
@RishiSunak
@OliverDowden
.
Our letter to The
@Telegraph
:
🚨More than 25% of parents believe the pandemic has shown it’s not essential for their kids to attend school every day
📌We urgently need to need to restore the bond between schools and families
📚Read our latest report, The Missing Link👇
“Worklessness is utterly demoralising… Helping people into work should be an urgent priority,” Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
@JonAshworth
tells today’s
@csjthinktank
keynote speech audience
📣 NEW REPORT:
#DigitalTechnologyInPrisons
Prisoners are often among the most digitally excluded in British society, yet nearly all jobs, from supermarket assistants to construction workers, now require at least basic digital literacy.
➡️ Read here:
💥 OUT NOW |
#FacingTheFacts
: Ethnicity and Disadvantage in Britain
Our new report shows that many ethnic minority groups are now doing better than the national average – other groups are getting left behind.
➡️ REPORT:
“The ONS now puts relationship breakdown as the number one reason why people end up homeless.”
@EdwardDaviesCSJ
on
@bbcbigquestions
discussing the links between relationship breakdown and poverty
🗓️ On TUESDAY 9TH January at 10.15am we will be hosting a speech by the Shadow Secretary of State for Education
@bphillipsonMP
on her vision for schools.
📽️Find out more and watch live👇
💥EVENT💥
We are delighted to be hosting
@MaggieOliverUK
,
@nazirafzal
and
@sammywoodhouse1
to discuss organised child sexual abuse, the next steps in survivor care, and access to justice. This is not one to miss.
🗓️27 October | 2pm
👉Sign up here:
Tomorrow, I'll be proposing a Bill in Parliament to require screening for dyslexia in primary schools
Only with improved screening in primary schools, alongside better teaching & assessment can we truly unleash the potential of people with dyslexia
Tonight we honour and celebrate some of the best poverty-fighting charities from across the country with our annual
#CSJAwards
in the heart of
#London
.
Families are more than a means to an end. They have their own needs, desires, lives to live, and contributions to make.
Read our latest report, The Golden Thread - Putting family at the heart of the criminal justice system.
We've uncovered a surge in children being off-rolled or forced out of school. "This important report exposes this issue and shines a spotlight on the lack of support & protection" says
@childrenscomm
📚Read the report here👇
Millions of people on low incomes are paying over the odds for essential goods and services.
As the
#CostofLivingCrisis
bites, we’re calling for an all out attack on the ‘poverty premium’.
📚 Read our report, produced in partnership with
@VirginMoney
👇
💥 NEW REPORT:
#UnsafeChildren
In the year ending March 2019, only 4% of police-recorded child abuse offences resulted in a charge or summons.
➡️ Full report: |
@paulfinney1969
From 5 - 7 Oct, we'll be hosting a series of virtual panel events during the week of the Conservative Party Conference.
We have an incredible line-up of speakers discussing the big social justice issues of the day.
#thesocialjusticeconference
✍️Register:
"Sport is so much more than a game... but there's considerable inequality of opportunity."
"Let's level up the playing field and give our young people the opportunities they need to reach their full potential."
@SabrinaMHummel
📚Read our report 👇
Brilliant to see another recommendation from our 'Unsafe Children' report adopted. That's now 15 of its recommendations taken up by government 🙌
Huge thanks to
@sajidjavid
and
@SarahChampionMP
for leading on this. As a result, vulnerable children will now be safer. Amazing!
Fantastic news, Government have accepted my amendment to carry out a review to stop sex offenders changing their name by deed pool and going under the radar to reoffend. Big win! Thank you
@TheSafeguarding
for all your help x
NEW REPORT: 'Putting Down Roots' from the CSJ's Housing Commission sets out why and how we must improve
#housing
security for tenants and landlords alike
#puttingdownroots
@mhclg
We are asking
@RishiSunak
to support the small charitable sector by announcing a £400-500 million hardship fund to ensure our network of charities have a future beyond this crisis.
Full letter to The
@Telegraph
here:
📢NEW REPORT:
#TakingControlforGood
Today we set out plans for an Enforcement Conduct Authority, designed in a ground-breaking collaboration between bailiffs and debt charities.
⚖️This will improve the support for millions of people in problem debt.
📌 Applications for the
#CSJAwards2021
are now open.
For your chance to win:
-- A £10,000 grant.
-- Your work presented in front of leading figures from across the country.
-- Opportunity to join the CSJ Partnership Programme.
➡️ Apply now:
Here we go...Universal Credit taper...63% high rate of tax on work...reduced 8% to 55%. That's something we've been campaigning for for 10 years. WOW!
#Budget2021
@BBCNews
@GBNEWS
Delighted to be welcoming
@rakibehsan
as our new Senior Data Analyst. He will further strengthen our insight and analysis, to give people who are experiencing the worst multiple disadvantage and issues of injustice, every possible opportunity to reach their full potential.
📢 PROFESSIONAL UPDATE 📢
Delighted to announce that I will be joining The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) as its new Senior Data Analyst.
An evidence-driven, family-orientated approach to social policy is needed for Britain 🇬🇧👨👩👧👦
To follow my new organisation:
@csjthinktank
🚨Our new report reveals a staggering 50% jump in severe absence.
🚨That's a 134% increase since before the pandemic - now 140,000 pupils.
🚨1-in-50 children who are mostly skipping lessons.
📚Read our latest report, Lost and Not Found👇
🚨 NEW CSJ REPORT: Collecting Dust
Head of Financial Inclusion & Housing,
@JoeShalam
highlights a pathway forward for government debt collection.
➡️ Full report here:
#CollectingDust
🚨| NEW: CSJ research published today finds that one in five pupils do NO enrichment activities in an average week. For our most disadvantaged pupils, this rises to one in four.
Over half of parents support longer school days for an
#EnrichmentGuarantee
Tomorrow evening sees the return of the annual
@csjthinktank
#CSJAwards
. It's our fifteenth year of celebrating and honouring some of the very best poverty-fighting charities from across the country!
Great to see such a constructive discussion between
@Montie
and
@carolynharris24
on the impact of lockdown on those disadvantaged communities who have been affected the most.
📢 OUT TODAY | Parallel societies: slavery, exploitation and criminal subculture in Leicester
“One thing for this report to do is to make the Government look at the fabric of this - all smelly, sticky and rotten.” –
@Baroness_Verma
➡️ Read here:
NEW CSJ REPORT: Commissioning Excellence in Disability
There are approximately 900,000 disabled people who are currently not in work but who want to work.
This must change.
Full report here:
#WednesdayWisdom
🚨 NEW CSJ REPORT: Warming the Cold Spots of Alternative Provision.
@CathMurray_
seeks to assess the quality of AP across England & identify areas where pupils are unable to access the high-quality education they deserve.
➡️ REPORT:
#APColdSpots
We are proud that our report: 'ROAD TO RECOVERY' has been a major influence in the Conservative's most recent manifesto regarding addiction.
With the right help and support, we believe addiction can be beaten.
Read more here: |
@MattHancock
“I am absolutely committed - and the government is committed - to improving the lives of disabled people.
One in five people identify as having a disability. This is not a niche issue, it is mainstream — and these are not just statistics, every one is a person.”
@NorwichChloe
The winner of this year’s
#CSJAwards2020
Education Award goes to
@FBeyondBorders
.
FBB uses football as a catalyst for creating change in the attitude of ‘at-risk’ young people in our schools.
➡️ Watch: |
@Telegraph