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Impact and Annual Report 2024/25

The Children's Society's 2024/25 impact and annual report details direct support for 57,652 children and young people across 77 services, covering early intervention and response to risk from abuse, exploitation and domestic violence. It highlights policy influencing through the Good Childhood Report and Action Before Crisis campaign, the launch of new early support hubs and the UK-wide Space to grow programme, alongside financial statements and governance disclosures for the year to March 2025.

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About

Runs 77 services for children, young people and families, providing early support and services responding to risk such as abuse and domestic violence, alongside national policy influencing (including the annual Good Childhood Report), community-based early support hubs like Time for young people, and a UK-wide Space to grow programme for children aged 8 to 13.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 57,652 children and young people directly supported in 2024/25
Key Metric 2 £42.08 million total income in 2024/25
Key Metric 3 15,856 professionals worked with to improve support for children and young people

Key Outcomes

  • 97% of children and young people supported said they were happy with the support they received
  • 93% said the support they received helped improve their situation
  • 91% of children and young people using early support hubs reported an improved goal or positive outcome after engaging with the service

Geography

London

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
Key Metric 2
140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
Key Metric 3
373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
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Key Metric 1
55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 2
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 3
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
Key Metric 2
Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
Key Metric 3
Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
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851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
Key Metric 2
27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
Key Metric 3
94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni