Children's Commissioner urges Boris Johnson to remember vulnerable children in fiery parting shot

mirror.co.uk:

Boris Johnson must show he is serious about putting children at the heart of his “building back better” pledge, the Children’s Commissioner will say on Wednesday.

In a fiery outgoing speech in the role, Anne Longfield will accuse the Treasury of “institutional bias against children”. And she will blast ministers and officials, saying she is shocked at how many “have never met any of the children they are responsible for.” So many seem to view them as remote concepts or data points on an annual return. "This is how children fall through the gaps - because too often the people in charge of the systems they need simply don't see them and try to understand their world." "I have to force officials and ministers to the table, to watch them sit