YCiS Guide

We are a national charity working to transform the hopes and happiness of young people facing abuse, exploitation and neglect. We support them through their most serious life challenges and we campaign tirelessly for the big social changes that will improve the lives of those who need hope most. We’ve been doing this for 140 years and we won’t stop until we’ve built a society where hope is alive in every child. Our vision is the world we seek to create. And we won’t rest until we’ve achieved our vision. Where together with young people and our supporters, we’ve created a society built for all children. Where hope is alive in every child.

• Our vision: A society built for all children. In the decade ahead we are determined to make sure this generation of children have a better childhood. So we will set out to build a happier, safer society for young people to grow up in, where they can look forward to their futures with more hope.
• Our goal: By 2030 we will have overturned the damaging decline in children’s well-being, setting a path for long lasting growth.

The Children’s Society’s Include Programme The Children’s Society Include Service supports children and young people who care for parents, siblings or others who suffer from chronic illness or disability; young carers. Our campaigning and influencing work reaches across the whole of England as we promote best practice and work in partnership with external strategic stakeholders to support young carers and their families and deliver multi-agency, whole family approaches. Our work focuses on the complex and high-risk needs identified for young carers who exhibit multiple vulnerabilities and factors of Hidden Harm and those who are particularly hard to reach.