Dame Rachel De Souza

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · More Rosebud - Dame Rachel De Souza, the Children's Commissioner · 12 May 2026 podcast

I think there's a couple of ways of answering that question.

And I think one of the things I've done a lot of research on is around, you mentioned, you know, some of the most heinous things that are happening, like children being groomed online, pornography, grooming gowns and such like.

And we have done a lot of research showing how so many of those abusers, including peer-on-peer abusers, and it's all worse than everybody thinks because I see the private data from the NCA.

There are some things that I just could not say on this programme, often have been abused themselves or are looking at this material themselves as children.

And that's one of the biggest factors you can now see.

So that is why we really need to clean up the internet for kids.

I mean, I think we need to be far less squeamish about talking about supporting family life and supporting young families and making sure whether that's everything from family hubs to the institutions to whatever we can do, I think, to help families stay together, be together and grow.

I was in Oslo recently and really interesting with the criminal justice system, they really don't lock up children.

There are 10 children in prison in Oslo and I've been to see them all and they are because really they wouldn't be safe not being locked up.

But what they do do is have a national network of volunteers, often older adults, who basically mentor those children weekly.

Those children, you know, children who've gotten into trouble, they are curfewed, they have to go to school, to school clubs.

There's compulsion there.

And it's incredibly positive.

And

what we do is we're very English and we sort of like, we want to help, but we don't know how.

And it really is family, community.

And what do you think saved your two brothers?

They are totally, absolutely, absolutely.

Very different stories.

So, and they were very different people.

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