At NCB our mission is to build a better childhood for every child because we believe we can and must do better for children every single day.
United for a Better Childhood: Building Brighter Futures
For 60 years, the National Children’s Bureau has taken an evidence-informed approach, united individuals and organisations and combined cutting-edge research with the voices of lived experience to drive positive change to improve the complex, interconnected systems that allow every child to thrive.
Our 2018-23 strategy United for a Better Childhood provided a framework to respond to the growing number of challenges facing children and young people and underpinned, among other things, our award-winning work to catalyse change in local systems around the country, our policy and influencing work that has won key changes and amendments to legislation and the amazing results of NCB’s specialist membership groups. You can read more about our progress over this period in our annual reports section.
But we must continue to challenge ourselves to go further and to do better so that we can keep pace with the scale and variety of issues facing children and and young people today.
United for a Better Children: Building Brighter Futures continues, strengthens and extends the good work achieved under our last five-year strategy and sets out our areas of focus from 2024 to 2029.
United for a Better Childhood: Building Better Futures is the NCB's strategy for 2024-29
Building Brighter Futures: Digging deeper
Coinciding with the parliamentary event being held on 14 May on behalf of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children, we launched the first in a series of reports that dig a little deeper into some key areas of our work – including voice, inclusive education and systems change.
These reports set out NCB’s unique evidence and experience and suggest some of the ways that we can go further and do better in achieving our mission to build a better childhood for every child.
Building Brighter Futures: Amplifying children’s voice outlines why the voices and experiences of children and young people have been and will continue to be at the heart of our work and shines a spotlight on recent successes.
Further deep dive reports will be published here over the course of the coming months.
Read Building Brighter Futures: Amplifying children’s voice.
