Children APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 12/01/2026

To raise greater awareness in the Houses of Parliament of aspects of the well-being of the nation's children and young people, ensuring the voice and experience of children are at the heart of policy making; and to work with children, children's organisations, and politicians from all sides, to promote first-class government policy for children.

Note: All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal, cross-party groups formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a particular policy area, region or country. APPGs have no official status within Parliament.

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4 Current Officers - 1 Current Members - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits

Reticulating Splines

2 Additional APPG Publications

11 June 2025

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31 August 2022

APPGC - Income and Expenditure Statement

4 Current APPG Officers

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Jess Asato

Chair & Registered Contact

Labour - Lowestoft

Joined: 20th November 2024

5 APPG Officer Positions
Care-Experienced Children and Young People , Commercial Sexual Exploitation , Domestic Violence and Abuse , East of England , Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse
24 APPG Memberships
Adoption and Permanence , Adult Social Care , Babies (Pregnancy to Age 2) , Children's Online Safety , Early Education and Childcare , Energy Studies , Fair Elections , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Homelessness , Hydrogen , Infrastructure , Mutuals , Net Zero , Nuclear Energy , Ocean , Performing Arts Education and Training , Political and Media Literacy , Renewable and Sustainable Energy , Sustainable Plastics , Tennis , Water Pollution , Women in Parliament , Young Carers and Young Adult Carers , Youth Affairs

Sarah Russell

Officer

Labour - Congleton

Joined: 12th January 2026

4 APPG Officer Positions
Access to Justice , Flexible and Family Friendly Working , Legal and Constitutional Affairs , Survivors of Fayed and Harrods
4 APPG Memberships
Maternity , Social, Cooperative, and Community Economy , Transport Safety , Water Pollution

Baroness Tyler of Enfield

Officer

Liberal Democrat - Life peer

Joined: 21st November 2018

2 APPG Officer Positions
Care-Experienced Children and Young People , Wellbeing Economics
4 APPG Memberships
Carers , Health , Healthy Places , Social Mobility

Baroness Verma

Officer

Conservative - Life peer

Joined: 20th November 2024

13 APPG Officer Positions
Afrikan Reparations , Black Maternal Health , Democratic Republic of Congo , Digital Inclusion , Digital Markets and Digital Money , Equitable Governance , Ethnic Minority Business Owners , Governance and Inclusive Leadership , India , Indian Traditional Sciences , Kurds , Obstructive Sleep Apnoea , Tamils
11 APPG Memberships
British Hindus , Commonwealth , Digital Communities , Digital Identity , Diversity and Inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics , Fair Banking , International Students , Parkrun , Switzerland and Liechtenstein , United Nations Global Goals , Women in Parliament

1 Current APPG Members

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Munira Wilson

Member

Liberal Democrat - Twickenham

3 APPG Officer Positions
Airport Communities , Kinship Care , London
12 APPG Memberships
Baby Loss , Blockchain Technologies , Care-Experienced Children and Young People , Christians in Parliament , Early Education and Childcare , Environment , Health , Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) , Parks and Green Spaces , Tidy Britain , Water Pollution , Women in Parliament

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Registered Contact:

Jess Asato MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.

Email: jess.asato.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Nadia Hafedh, National Children's Bureau

Email: nhafedh@ncb.org.uk

Secretariat:

National Children's Bureau acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.ncb.org.uk/

Group's Website:

https://www.ncb.org.uk/what-we-do/influencing-policy/all-party-parliamentary-group-children-appgc