You can read the full Children in Wales Impact Report 2024 to 2025 here.

Impact Report 2024 to 2025

Children in Wales is proud to share our annual Impact Report, highlighting a year of meaningful progress in advancing children’s rights, strengthening young people’s influence and supporting practice across Wales.  

Throughout 2025, we continued to champion the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in Wales, working with babies, children and young people - and the parents, carers, professionals and members who support them - to ensure rights are understood, respected and embedded in real decision-making. Our report shows how, through advocacy, research, professional learning and collaboration, we are helping to create a Wales where every child can thrive and where their voices are at the centre of policy and practice. 

In his introduction in the report, our Chief Executive Hugh Russell reflects on the commitment that drives our work and the progress we have achieved together. He writes: “At Children in Wales, accountability is hugely important to us. We are accountable to babies, children and young people, whose rights we seek to promote; to our members, whose crucial work brings into focus a Wales where all children have all of their rights met; to our funders, whose support propels us towards our mission; and to one another, as colleagues striving to deliver that better Wales for children. Our Impact Report offers a valuable opportunity for us to publicly set out what we’ve achieved and the difference we have made over the last year in collaboration with all of these partners.” 

This year we reached more babies, children, young people and professionals than ever before. More than 4,200 practitioners strengthened their knowledge of safeguarding and children’s rights through our training. A total of 512 young people participated directly in shaping decisions through advisory boards, consultations, events and residentials, and the Young Wales programme grew to 215 active members. We also submitted 14 consultation responses and engaged in 76 meetings of networks and working groups, helping to ensure children’s rights remain central to policy development in Wales.