Authors: Dame Rachel de Souza
Executive summary
The Big Ambition was a large-scale consultation of children in England carried out between September 2023 and January 2024 by the Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, which engaged 367,000 children and adults, and received responses from 253,000. Children aged 6 to 17, young people aged 18 still in school or college, and adults on behalf of children, answered a broad set of questions about their lives, and shared their views on what they think needs to change to make children’s lives better.
Contents of the survey The Big Ambition survey asked a range of demographic questions, including school name where applicable, and presented respondents with 20 statements to which they could agree or disagree.
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