To improve the quality of care, life opportunities and status of children by taking or initiating action to protect or enhance their rights providing or enabling direct services, through a variety of disciplines, for their benefit and influencing decisions or actions of individuals, organisations and governments, where relevant to children and their families.

We work to make the lives of children who are disadvantaged better in terms of both their current wellbeing and their future life opportunities. While we work with some of the most socially and psychologically damaged children in our society, we also work with children who are disadvantaged in other ways - children with learning and language difficulties, children with a disability, children with mental health issues or young people whose future job prospects are very limited. We are also aware that children face new forms of disadvantage such as childhood obesity and cyber bullying that are emerging as a consequence of changes to the way we live in contemporary society and we are aware we need to be working towards minimising their impact. To meet these various needs, we work in most of the contexts that shape children's lives -the home, the school environment and in the community.

Children's rights
Disadvantage
Advocating
Public awareness
Research and development