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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Shanti Das

‘Child poverty has got a lot worse’: outgoing charity boss lambasts Tory failures and social media giants

Peter Wanless, with a beard and wearing a string bracelet, glasses and a long-sleeved shirt with birds on it, sits on a chair
‘Childhood, to me, is not risk free. It’s about enjoying life with guardrails’: Peter Wanless, outgoing CEO of the NSPCC, on online safety. Photograph: Karen Robinson/the Observer

The boss of the UK’s leading children’s charity has attacked the Conservatives for their failure to improve outcomes for children, saying that, while they were in power, “pretty much every indicator” went in the wrong direction.

In a frank interview days before he steps down, NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless said ministers had “good intentions”, citing a review of children’s social care and online safety reforms – but that in the end, “you’ve got to be judged by the actions”.

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