More than six in 10 young people don’t believe that “politicians understand the issues that affect children today”, a new campaign by a group of high-profile children’s charities has warned.
A survey of 1,000 children by the Children’s Charities Coalition found that 62 per cent of UK children think that politicians don’t understand the issues that affect children and young people today while almost three quarters don’t feel that children are listened to by politicians.
The partnership of children’s charities consisting of Action for Children, Barnardo’s, The Children’s Society, the National Children’s Bureau and the NSPCC, has shared the findings to raise awareness of concerns about the lives of children and young people ahead of the next general election.
The coalition’s Children at the Table campaign, carried out in partnership with young people and supported by more than 130 charities, is calling on the next government to put babies, children and young people at the heart of policy making.
