The Future of Childhood

What do children want the future to be like? How can we work towards a better childhood for children in the future? These questions were the starting point for Save the Children UK’s project ‘Changing Narratives for the Future of Childhood’.

Save the Children supports children to learn, grow and become who they want to be. Save the Children is a global movement made up of national member organisations, of which Save the Children UK is one of the biggest.

Decisions that are made today that will inform what happens in the future. That’s why Save the Children wants to understand children and young people’s hope and dreams for the future of childhood, from what they would want childhood to be like in the future to the language they use to describe it. The project has aimed to help children visualise and vocalise a better future, and to challenge ourselves and others to build on their vision to create the best possible future for children.

Over the past year, Save the Children has heard from over 400 children from the areas it works in across the whole of the UK, to understand their vision for the future. At the same time, Save the Children has been talking to policy experts and practitioners working in the children’s sector in each nation of the UK, to understand what we can expect childhood to be like in 20 years’ time, if nothing changes. The new report ‘The Future of Childhood: Raising Children’s Voices about the Future’ paints a picture of the future for each nation of the UK.

You can access the report here (available in English and Welsh).