Dame Rachel De Souza
speaker
518 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 May
Dame Rachel De Souza’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And they had great passions and interests and things they wanted to do.
get off their phones, get off the internet, especially after lockdown, get out and play.
I mean, these are things that are great to hear, but it's not what we see.
And I think we have a real issue about how we're bringing our children up, about what childhood is and whether we can really help children thrive.
I think it's so important.
So I think we've done major work around children getting back to school.
So we've done, I've used my powers to find every single child that was out of school.
The lost children, the ghost children, we've found them, we've found out what's wrong, we've made policy proposals.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I literally, we scoured the data to find who had fallen off rolls,
Where were these children?
And we went and actually found out, why are you not at school?
Where are you?
What's happening?
So I think we have given, my little team of 30 and I have given a body of knowledge about children and what they want to government that I think is second to none.
So I think I can think of some children, a couple of children in Manchester and one particularly, because we did an attendance, big attendance review in Manchester with all the services, all the children.
And I can think of children who were not going because they didn't have the correct uniform.
And I can think of one child particularly where when we got the school just to sort out getting them a uniform, they went to school.
And that's why, and why I tell you that story is because
There is always something.
Showing 41–60 of 518 · page 3 of 26
← Previous
Next →