Listen to a star-studded panel discuss growing evidence of how social media is harming children and young people, and what government, schools, mental health professionals, and civil society can do together to address this national challenge.

This event came at a timely moment as the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill proceeded through the House of Lords, providing a space to examine the case for raising the age of access to social media, and to consider how policy can better safeguard the wellbeing and development of children.

The CSJ report, Change the Prescription, published last year, found that change is required to protect children from exposure to harmful online content, which can have a detrimental impact on their mental health. Read it at centreforsocialjustice.org.uk.

Panel:

• Lord Nash, Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools Sophie Winkleman, actress, charity patron, and campaigner
• Simon Bailey CBE, QPM, DL, Chair of the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute
• Dr Becky Foljambe, NHS GP Partner and founder of Health Professionals for Safer Screens
• Jonathan Hinder MP, Pendle and Clitheroe

On November 17th, the CSJ and the CSJ Foundation held the annual CSJ Awards. The biggest names from showbiz, politics and philanthropy descended on Westminster to celebrate the best small charities of 2025. On the morning of the ceremony, the five winning charities talked to VAWG Activist and Broadcaster Sharon Gaffka about their work, what it's like being a small charity in 2025 and their asks of Government.

On the eve of Labour Party Conference, the CSJ are taking a plan to end rough sleeping to Liverpool - Housing First. The CSJ first came across the Housing First model in 2016, having engaged with a local project in Camden, which in turn was inspired by the Finnish Housing First model. The CSJ then visited Finland to develop a focused proposal for England, subsequently taking then Housing Secretary Sajid Javid on an official visit to Helsinki to view the impact of the approach on the ground. The project convinced the government to allocate £28 million for the three city-region pilots and to build the evidence base for the effectiveness of Housing First in England and how it should be rolled out more widely. In 2017, the CSJ published its first report, Housing First, followed by a larger paper, Close to Home, which outlined how the government could scale up Housing First across England. Following the success of the city-region pilots, the CSJ's latest report, No Place Like Home, lays out the steps that Government should take to put an end to rough sleeping. By rolling out Housing First nationally, and doubling the number of places available, we believe we can help the most chronic rough sleepers out of the cycle of homelessness. Alongside Chief Exec Andy Cook and Senior Researcher Josh Nicholson, we are joined by four champions of our proposals: - Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester - Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region - Steve Morgan, Founder of the Steve Morgan Foundation and founder and former Chair of housebuilders Redrow - Matthew Torbitt, Senior Fellow at the CSJ.

Read more at: www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/no-place-like-home