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<p>Last year’s loneliness strategy, ‘A Connected Society: A strategy for tackling
loneliness - laying the foundations for change’, sets out almost 60 new commitments
from nine government departments. Many of these commitments are targeted at tackling
loneliness among children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>Examples include: teaching
all primary and secondary school children in England about loneliness from September
2020 under the new subjects of Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education
and Health Education and supporting young people to look after local green spaces
and wildlife habitats, while building social connections, through the #iwill campaign.</p><p>
</p><p>Twenty-two of the 126 organisations funded through the £11.5m Building Connections
Fund (delivered in partnership with the National Lottery Community Fund and the Co-op
Foundation) are working specifically with young people at risk of loneliness. We are
also working with the Office for National Statistics and other external partners to
improve the evidence base on youth loneliness.</p><p> </p>
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