The Children’s Union is fighting back. Join us
In British public discourse and political decision-making, children have been forgotten.
Policies that directly impact on their welfare have treated them as expendable. In national politics, they have become less than an after-thought; their welfare wilfully sacrificed, time and again – increasingly without the slightest pretence of consideration or concern.
The Children’s Union says enough.
We have a single mission: to defend the interests of children to those wielding power.
We will entertain no other agenda, whether political, financial or personal. The welfare of all children will be our sole concern, and in their interests will we hold society’s leaders to account.
An advanced and wealthy nation such as the UK should be a wonderful place for a child to grow up. Instead, our children face a daily diet of unchecked corporate predation, ideological instruction, uncontextualized totalitarian rule-making, along with an actual diet of ultra-processed, addictive foods. We are deploying the full force and ingenuity of our scientifically advanced age against our children.
The nature of these threats are unlike any that parents have faced before, or that any parent is equipped to tackle alone. They pervade every aspect of a child’s life and are highly technological, ubiquitous (often without a realistic substitute), top-down and, increasingly, mandated. No adult or guardian has a chance of defending children against this onslaught, this amoral, technocratic construct designed to exploit them.
The Children’s Union will fight this systematic predation, neglect and exploitation head-on.
We will argue the case for children in a reasoned way, with reference to evidence where it is available, and logic where it is not.
We will leverage the knowledge of child-experts across disciplines, from developmental psychology and paediatrics, through to data science and pedagogy, and we will depend on the active participation and contribution of all adults in society who care about our children and who want that message to ring unmistakably and deafeningly through the corridors of power.
We are here to make a big difference, and with your help, that is what we will do.
