Rachel de Souza

Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, said that she supported Williamson’s plan to formally ban smartphones in schools (Photo: PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Distracting and damaging’ mobile phones could be banned in schools from January

Schools minister Nick Gibb

School isolation rules could end this autumn

School isolation rules in England likely to end in the autumn (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

School isolation rules in England likely to end in the autumn

All children in England will be consulted on how the pandemic has affected them (Photo: Shutterstock)

All children in England will be consulted on how the pandemic has affected them

Dame Rachel de Souza, the new children's commissioner for England, says there is a once in a generation opportunity to "rebuild childhood" after the disruption of the coronavirus. (Pic: Children's Commissioner)

Rachel de Souza: who is the new children's commissioner and what are her plans?

England’s Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield, will call on the Government to make children a priority after the pandemic (Photo: Shutterstock)

Kids must be a priority post-Covid after an 'impossibly damaging' year - what En...