RAISING

THE

NATION

How to Build a Better Future For Our Children (And Everyone Else) // By Paul Lindley

Children today grow up in an increasingly volatile, complex and uncertain world. Theirs is a generation disempowered from steering their lives while society’s systems are failing to provide the support they need. Yet, a country only prospers when its children – from all walks of life – thrive, meaning that the United Kingdom now faces some consequential choices.

Raising the Nation builds a compelling case showing why we must nurture smart, strong and kind children to one day inherit the stewardship of society. Setting out big public policy ideas, enhanced by contributions from academic and campaigning experts, as well as those with lived experience, including London Mayor Sadiq Khan, singer and activist Charlotte Church, and ex-prime minister of Denmark and former CEO of Save the Children International Helle Thorning-Schmidt, this book is a manifesto to deliver our brightest possible future. Reframing political success, it shows why we must prioritise child-centred policies to ensure the future strength of our communities, environment and economy.

Available in paperback and eBook. 

“A society’s top priority must be to protect the wellbeing of all its children. I know as my childhood was stolen from me. This book shows how it can be done.”

Emmanual Jal, ex-child solider, singer and songwriter, peace activist

Contents

Foreword by Helle Thorning-Schmidt

1. Introduction

2. How did we get here?

3. The early years

4. Play

5. Local spaces

6. Education

7. Health

8. Digital

9. Children society fails most

10. Democracy

11. Voice

12. Variety

13. Well-being

14. A National Children’s Service

Details

Published: Nov 7, 2023

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Page count: 304 pages

ISBN (paperback): 978-1447366478

Publisher: Policy Press

“Brings together an astonishing group of experts to paint a picture of how and why we should make our country a better place to be a child. Through data, stories, metaphors and essays, Paul Lindley has created a vision offering radical and challenging ideas for the changes necessary for generations of children to thrive. It all deserves serious consideration.”

Naomi Eisenstadt, first Director of Sure Start and former advisor on poverty to the Scottish Government