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The Centre for Social Justice
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An independent think-tank, established to put social justice at the heart of British politics.

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We know the unrestricted dangers of the online world.

Our latest analysis suggests almost one million 3-5 year olds are now using social media.🤳

🗣️Watch Researcher Luke Taylor, on GBNews and read our full findings below.👇
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
On Wednesday evening the CSJ will be hosting a LIVE recording of the hit podcast, Not Another One.🎙️

Watch the recording LIVE on Wednesday from 6:20pm on X, LinkedIn or via the link below.🎄
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📱Social media is driving screen addiction in young children and creating serious challenges for their mental health.

🎙️Sophie Winkleman joined the CSJ's panel on amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing in Schools Bill and pushed for stronger safeguards on #PoliticsLive.

👇Read our latest analysis.
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
📰 @financialtimes.com

'UK ministers are exploring tougher regulation of AI chatbots over concerns they could encourage teenagers to commit acts of self-harm.'

We welcome this @lizkendallmp.bsky.social - as we uncovered, any child can now access self-harm content on AI chatbots👇
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Political momentum for Housing First is building ahead of the Homelessness Strategy. 🏠📈

Labour MPs Lee Pitcher and Patrick Hurley called for a national rollout of the models successfully piloted in Manchester and Liverpool yesterday.

Our plan to double places👇
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🚨BREAKING: Rough sleeping has hit a post-pandemic high.

9,574 people slept rough in July.

That’s 94% ⬆️ from 4 years ago.

🏠Housing First - backed by @andyburnham.bsky.social and @metromayorsteve.bsky.social - is a proven solution.

We must double places nationally⏫

@stevemorganfdn.bsky.social💚
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Loading yet more taxes onto the public like a game of buckaroo is not the same as doing the hard work to repair broken Britain."

Policy Director, Joe Shalam, responds to today's Budget.👇
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🗣️ Jonathan Hinder MP:

“Thousands of working-class young people - especially boys - could have their life chances transformed through a rewarding career in construction if we get this right.”
November 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🚨NEW CSJ REPORT🚨

One in three builders is now OVER the age of 50 and 130,000 are 65+👷

Meanwhile the number of young people in construction has collapsed by over 150,000 since 2008.

We are in the midst of a workforce crisis that threatens Britain’s ability to build.

🧵👇
November 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🗞️ “Boys look to be fathered, and when they find no one who can perform that vital role at home, they may move on to the ones we don’t want.”

Ed Davies, CSJ Research Director, on what this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert reveals about fatherhood in Britain today.

⬇️ Read the full article below.
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🗣️"The data show the social contract, our expectations of each other, our basic shared morality, has shifted and created dramatic new realities."

📰In his latest article, Ed Davies discusses the moral dynamics shaping British politics.

👇Read the full article below.
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🙏David Gandy, the world’s most famous male model, is backing the CSJ’s Lost Boys campaign.

🏛️He joined us at the Speaker’s House to discuss how culture shapes perceptions of young men.

🗞️Read his interview in @thetimes.com today and stay tuned for our Men in Culture report.
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🗣️ Senior Researcher, Daniel Lilley: “The problem of worklessness is resurfacing and last year's record rise marks a worrying turn for the worse.”
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨NEW🚨

Children in long-term workless households hits a nine-year high.

CSJ analysis shows 1.2 million children are now growing up in homes where no parent has worked for over a year - the fastest rise on record.

🧵👇
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
October 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The homebuilding sector is 161,000 builders short of the workforce needed to meet Government housing targets🏠

👷Our upcoming report will outline how we can strengthen the domestic construction workforce AND help the government build the 1.5 million homes promised.
October 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🏛️Earlier this month, we took Lost Boys to the Senedd.

🏉Politicians, rugby legend Ken Owens, and charity leaders discussed how Wales can turn the tide for boys.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿With elections on the horizon, it’s time to put boys and young men at the heart of Welsh policymaking.
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🎓Attitudes to school attendance are in free-fall, despite persistently absent pupils being £10k worse off by age 28.

🎙️Policy Director, Joe Shalam, joins @lbc.co.uk to discuss why “carrot and stick” is needed to turn the tide on the absence crisis.

Listen here👇
October 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨WATCH: Latest absence data out today.

📢Senior Researcher Emily Wells lays out what it reveals and how government can act.

Our recommendations offers the roadmap to get parents and children re-engaged with school.

⬇️Explore our latest Absence Tracker below.
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🚨NEW: Record numbers of pupils missed half of lessons this Spring.

🤝CSJ Alliance charity Grace Foundation show that
rebuilding trust with families helps prevent school absence.

📘Absent Ambition calls for DfE to evaluate their Family Support Worker model for a national rollout👇
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Senior Researcher Emily Wells🗣️

"School attendance changes lives and so teachers, parents and ministers all deserve credit for pushing persistent absence down👏

But the data also tells a darker story, which is that a new record in severe absence has been smashed."
October 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
📺WATCH: In September, we revealed that half of parents believe it “reasonable” for their child to be persistently absent.

How to improve home-school relations👇

🔴Attendance Awareness Courses
🔴'Engaging with Parents' Toolkits
🔴Attendance Mentors

Senior Researcher Dan Lilley says more
October 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🚨NEW🚨

The no. of pupils missing at least one school day per fortnight was ⬇️ 7.2% in Spring - good news for govt in slowing persistent absence👍

But severe absence - kids missing over half of school - hit another termly record.📈

We cannot ignore Britain's Ghost Children🧵
October 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🏠For every £1 invested in Housing First, £2 is saved in public spending.

💬@Paulabarkermp.bsky.social Co-Chair of the APPG for Ending Homelessness, spotlighted CSJ’s findings.

💡Rolling out Housing First could save millions AND help thousands of people rebuild their lives off the streets.
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM