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🙏David Gandy, the world’s most famous male model, is backing the CSJ’s Lost Boys campaign.

🏛️He joined us at the Speaker’s House to discuss how culture shapes perceptions of young men.

🗞️Read his interview in @thetimes.com today and stay tuned for our Men in Culture report.
🗞️ “Boys look to be fathered, and when they find no one who can perform that vital role at home, they may move on to the ones we don’t want.”

Ed Davies, CSJ Research Director, on what this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert reveals about fatherhood in Britain today.

⬇️ Read the full article below.
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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🏆 CSJ Awards: One Year On

🚀Finally, we head to the North East and Middlesbrough, where Richard Brice has taken Clean Slate from strength to strength since winning a CSJ Award.

🎥Watch his story below.
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🗣️"The data show the social contract, our expectations of each other, our basic shared morality, has shifted and created dramatic new realities."

📰In his latest article, Ed Davies discusses the moral dynamics shaping British politics.

👇Read the full article below.
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🙏David Gandy, the world’s most famous male model, is backing the CSJ’s Lost Boys campaign.

🏛️He joined us at the Speaker’s House to discuss how culture shapes perceptions of young men.

🗞️Read his interview in @thetimes.com today and stay tuned for our Men in Culture report.
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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🎉 The countdown to the CSJ Awards begins.

Who better to hear from than former Award Winner, and now our Chief Executive, Andy Cook.

Every year, we celebrate small charities tackling the toughest issues in Britain.

⬇️ Watch Andy share what makes these Awards so special.
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🚨NEW🚨

Children in long-term workless households hits a nine-year high.

CSJ analysis shows 1.2 million children are now growing up in homes where no parent has worked for over a year - the fastest rise on record.

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October 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The homebuilding sector is 161,000 builders short of the workforce needed to meet Government housing targets🏠

👷Our upcoming report will outline how we can strengthen the domestic construction workforce AND help the government build the 1.5 million homes promised.
October 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🏛️Earlier this month, we took Lost Boys to the Senedd.

🏉Politicians, rugby legend Ken Owens, and charity leaders discussed how Wales can turn the tide for boys.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿With elections on the horizon, it’s time to put boys and young men at the heart of Welsh policymaking.
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🎓Attitudes to school attendance are in free-fall, despite persistently absent pupils being £10k worse off by age 28.

🎙️Policy Director, Joe Shalam, joins @lbc.co.uk to discuss why “carrot and stick” is needed to turn the tide on the absence crisis.

Listen here👇
October 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨WATCH: Latest absence data out today.

📢Senior Researcher Emily Wells lays out what it reveals and how government can act.

Our recommendations offers the roadmap to get parents and children re-engaged with school.

⬇️Explore our latest Absence Tracker below.
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🚨NEW: Record numbers of pupils missed half of lessons this Spring.

🤝CSJ Alliance charity Grace Foundation show that
rebuilding trust with families helps prevent school absence.

📘Absent Ambition calls for DfE to evaluate their Family Support Worker model for a national rollout👇
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🚨NEW🚨

The no. of pupils missing at least one school day per fortnight was ⬇️ 7.2% in Spring - good news for govt in slowing persistent absence👍

But severe absence - kids missing over half of school - hit another termly record.📈

We cannot ignore Britain's Ghost Children🧵
October 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🏠For every £1 invested in Housing First, £2 is saved in public spending.

💬@Paulabarkermp.bsky.social Co-Chair of the APPG for Ending Homelessness, spotlighted CSJ’s findings.

💡Rolling out Housing First could save millions AND help thousands of people rebuild their lives off the streets.
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NEW: The Govt's new anti-drugs campaign is welcome as drug poisonings hits its highest record💉

In December, we found that 3/4 of police officers deemed current drug possession policies ineffective❌

We need police to direct drug users into treatment, not decriminalisation👇
October 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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@csjthinktank.bsky.social is hosting an event to draw attention to the mental health and wellbeing of young men.

There are now so many gaps in provision for young people, especially boys and young men, to positively engage with others, feel valued and enjoy life.
October 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
⭐️It’s that time of year again….The #CSJAwards are officially one month today🥳

We cannot wait to celebrate the best small charities in the UK👏

👀Stay tuned as charities, celebrities and politicians tell us the stories of these local heroes fighting poverty this month.
October 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Want to know what it's like being an Events & Engagement Manager in a think tank? In our latest blog Liberty Morrow from think tank @csjthinktank.bsky.social answers our questions on how she found her role, what it involves and what is great about it!

Read it here: bit.ly/4oeQ8Rk
October 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📺WATCH LIVE ON X, LINKEDIN AND YOUTUBE FROM 18:30 TONIGHT.

Our Welsh launch of Lost Boys in the Senedd🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

⭐️Ken Owens

⭐️Sam Rowlands MS

⭐️Jane Hutt MS
 
⭐️Ali Wheeler
 
⭐️Edward Davies

📊Wales has the biggest gap between boys and girls leaving school jobless in the UK. We discuss solutions.
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Without real-life role models or father figures, boys turn online for direction💻

There, they encounter an alluring mix of both positive and harmful messages.

👨‍👦We must restore role models, purpose and aspiration to boys at home, school and work.

lostboys.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Really good to join @csjthinktank.bsky.social event about how we unleash philantrophy and help change society. Good to hear from Philippa Cornish from CAF, Iain Duncan Smith MP, Nathan Gamester, Nigel Huddleston MP and Jadwiga Leigh from New Beginnings Foundation
#CPC25
October 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Education secretary @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social being interviewed at packed @csjthinktank.bsky.social and Parentkind fringe here at #lab2025
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🏠 Housing First is tried and tested in tackling rough sleeping, proven in pilots.

👏 Thanks to Labour MPs backing our plan to double Housing First, alongside @andyburnham.bsky.social, @metromayorsteve.bsky.social.

@sarahsmithlab.bsky.social @dannybealesmp.bsky.social @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social
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October 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
📚Watch Education Secretary @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social LIVE in conversation with Caroline Wheeler at #Lab25🌹

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September 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
WATCH OUR FINANCING GROWTH EVENT HERE:
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September 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM