Beyond Westminster

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The Centre for Social Justice’s Beyond Westminster podcast takes a look at the issues facing Britain’s most disadvantaged communities. Each episode will bring together policy experts, frontline charities and those with lived experience to investigate a particular area of social breakdown in the UK.

  1. JAN 2

    Hold The Phone: What age should children be on social media?📱

    Listen to a star-studded panel discuss growing evidence of how social media is harming children and young people, and what government, schools, mental health professionals, and civil society can do together to address this national challenge. This event came at a timely moment as the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill proceeded through the House of Lords, providing a space to examine the case for raising the age of access to social media, and to consider how policy can better safeguard the wellbeing and development of children. The CSJ report, Change the Prescription, published last year, found that change is required to protect children from exposure to harmful online content, which can have a detrimental impact on their mental health. Read it at centreforsocialjustice.org.uk. Panel: Lord Nash, Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools Sophie Winkleman, actress, charity patron, and campaigner Simon Bailey CBE, QPM, DL, Chair of the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute Dr Becky Foljambe, NHS GP Partner and founder of Health Professionals for Safer Screens Jonathan Hinder MP, Pendle and Clitheroe

    59 min

  2. JAN 2

    🏆CSJ Awards 2025 Podcast, Hosted by Sharon Gaffka

    On November 17th, the CSJ and the CSJ Foundation held the annual CSJ Awards. The biggest names from showbiz, politics and philanthropy descended on Westminster to celebrate the best small charities of 2025. On the morning of the ceremony, the five winning charities talked to VAWG Activist and Broadcaster Sharon Gaffka about their work, what it's like being a small charity in 2025 and their asks of Government.

    30 min

  3. 09/25/2025

    🏠Taking Housing First from Pilot to Policy, with Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram and Steve Morgan CBE

    On the eve of Labour Party Conference, the CSJ are taking a plan to end rough sleeping to Liverpool - Housing First. The CSJ first came across the Housing First model in 2016, having engaged with a local project in Camden, which in turn was inspired by the Finnish Housing First model. The CSJ then visited Finland to develop a focused proposal for England, subsequently taking then Housing Secretary Sajid Javid on an official visit to Helsinki to view the impact of the approach on the ground. The project convinced the government to allocate £28 million for the three city-region pilots and to build the evidence base for the effectiveness of Housing First in England and how it should be rolled out more widely. In 2017, the CSJ published its first report, Housing First, followed by a larger paper, Close to Home, which outlined how the government could scale up Housing First across England. Following the success of the city-region pilots, the CSJ's latest report, No Place Like Home, lays out the steps that Government should take to put an end to rough sleeping. By rolling out Housing First nationally, and doubling the number of places available, we believe we can help the most chronic rough sleepers out of the cycle of homelessness. Alongside Chief Exec Andy Cook and Senior Researcher Josh Nicholson, we are joined by four champions of our proposals: - Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester - Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region - Steve Morgan, Founder of the Steve Morgan Foundation and founder and former Chair of housebuilders Redrow - Matthew Torbitt, Senior Fellow at the CSJ. Read more at: www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/no-place-like-home

    34 min

  4. 09/11/2025

    Teachers and Parents on School Absence: A Podcast Special📚

    For our latest report Absent Ambition, we travelled across the UK talking to teachers and parents about the root causes of the absence crisis. Listen to Chief Executive Andy Cook and Senior Researcher Dan Lilley dissect these interviews and present our findings🤔 Thank you to CSJ Alliance Charity One-Eighty, the Steve Rigby Foundation, Mark Billyield and Yasmin Manzoor for their participation in this podcast. Read the full report here: centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/absent-ambition.

    46 min

  5. 07/31/2025

    Time To Overhaul the Pupil Premium?

    New CSJ analysis in our latest report, Unequal Returns, show that despite despite tens of billions invested in Pupil Premium (PP), outcomes for disadvantaged pupils remain deeply uneven. Some schools are seeing their attainment gap widen. Our report argues that the PP funding model must evolve into a smarter, more precise system – one that better reflects the realities of modern disadvantage and delivers real impact for the children it was created to help. To discuss its findings and the future of PP, we will be joined by: Sir Trevor Phillips OBE, broadcaster and former EHRC Chair Sir Kevan Collins, lead non-executive board member at the Department for Education Professor Lee Elliot Major OBE, UK's first Social Mobility Professor and co-creator of the Pupil Premium Toolkit Emma Bonnin, Headteacher of Pakeman Primary School. Mercy Muroki, Centre for Social Justice

    34 min

  6. 06/18/2025

    Fatherlessness: The Issue Westminster won't talk about?

    No one in Westminster is talking about fatherlessness, but our Alliance of 700+ small charities tell us it’s a huge issue. That’s why our star-studded CSJ team came together to discuss it in the latest episode of Beyond Westminster. It’s part of a new podcast series we’re launching, led by the voices of small charities. Informed by daily visits to our Alliance network, we’ll be taking hot-takes from the frontlines and bringing them right to the heart of SW1 by debating them on our podcast. Kicking off this series is a CSJ Alliance charity in Darlington called Parents and Children Together North East (PACTNE), who provide supported housing for families at risk of losing their children to the care system. They say fatherlessness has had the biggest impact on their work. Fatherlessness was also identified as one of the areas driving the crisis facing boys and young men in Lost Boys: State of the Nation. Find out more at lostboys.org.uk. Host Andy Cook, Chief Executive Guests Ed Davies, Research Director Mercy Muroki, Development Director Joe Shalam, Policy Director

    30 min

  7. 05/15/2025

    'Screen-Demic': Smartphones, Social Media and Mental Health

    'Beyond Westminster' returns on Mental Health Awareness Week for a discussion on the ‘Screen-Demic’ and what Government should do about it. With the Safer Phones Bill going through the House of Commons, we ask why the Government has watered down its plans to protect young people. This conversation draws on research conducted in Change The Prescription, the CSJ's landmark report into mental health which evidenced social media and smartphones as contributors to the rise in mental ill-health. Read it here: centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/change-the-prescription. Host: Fraser Nelson - Times Columnist and former Editor of the Spectator Special Guests: Sophie Winkleman - Actress, Charity Patron and Campaigner Rt. Hon. Kit Malthouse MP - Former Policing Minister and Secretary of State for Education, Co-Sponsor of the Safer Phones Bill Dr. Sanjiv Nichani OBE - Consultant Paediatrician, and Founder of Healing Little Hearts Global Foundation

    43 min

  8. 03/07/2025

    Lost Boys: Restoring hope for Britain's boys and young men

    Boys and young men are in crisis. While the last hundred years have been marked by great leaps forward in outcomes and rights for women, in this generation it is boys who are being left behind. And by some margin. From the day they start primary school, to the day they leave higher education, the progress of boys lags behind girls. On Wednesday 5th March, the Centre for Social Justice launched a State of the Nation report on Britain's Lost Boys with a star-studded panel speaking to an audience of politicians, charities and, most importantly, the young boys from around Britain who helped shaped the report. The panel included:  Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester and former Health Secretary. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Chair of the Centre for Social Justice. Lawrence Dallaglio OBE, former England Rugby Union Captain and Founder of Dallaglio Rugbyworks. Miriam Cates, CSJ Senior Fellow and former Member of Parliament. Sonia Shaljean, Founder of Lads Need Dads. Charlie, a young man who has been supported by Lads Need Dads. Andy Cook, CSJ CEO. Luke Taylor, CSJ Researcher. Over the coming months, the CSJ will be looking for solutions to this growing problem. This report aims to paint a stark picture of what is happening in six significant areas of life. It makes the urgent case that action is needed. This report will not cover every issue facing young men and boys, but it is a start. CLICK PLAY to hear the panel discuss our findings.

    1h 3m
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The Centre for Social Justice’s Beyond Westminster podcast takes a look at the issues facing Britain’s most disadvantaged communities. Each episode will bring together policy experts, frontline charities and those with lived experience to investigate a particular area of social breakdown in the UK.

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  • Creator
    The Centre for Social Justice
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    23
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    Beyond Westminster