Health, wealth and wellbeing. Key determinants of how our lives pan out. And one of the biggest ways to guarantee them in a child's life? A good education. Broadcaster and author Jenni Murray is joined by the “Covid Catch-up Tsar” Sir Kevan Collins and Dame Rachel de Souza, Children’s Commissioner for England, to discuss why your schooldays are so important, and how their legacy leaves a ripple effect across an individual’s life, as well as in society at large.

Now I'm Grown Up is hosted by Jenni Murray, produced by Antonia Cundy and Theodora Louloudis, and brought to you by Now Teach. The credits for this episode were read by Tye Hulbert.

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