There is a simple ethic that works for this portfolio, make a child happy, thrill her, give her reasons to want to live and the means to rise above her circumstances. It is the same we inevitably do for our children because the new generation needs this nurture.

Children, their parents, their schools, the authorities, our programme partners – you’ll find several voices here telling us how we are faring in this task and what we need to do more.

For us this is a telling section, in more ways than one.