SHiFT is looking for a new Chair and two Trustees. Building on strong foundations set by Sophie Humphreys OBE and Josh MacAlister MP, our new Chair will be a highly sought after person able to turbocharge the organisation at a moment of rapid growth in national presence and impact.

"We’ve become an emergency service before it’s an emergency" This really gets to the reality of what staff in schools are doing every day to support children and families - in the face of greater and greater need.

📢📢BIG NEWS KLAXON! I can't tell you how PROUD we are at Unlocked Graduates to be up at #22 in the Times Top 100 Graduate Employer list, above many very well known household names! Not that long ago I was told a prison officer grad scheme would likely NEVER make it into this list!

EG Learning styles get resurrected thanks to AI. "You can always just look it up" gets reborn when ChatGPT comes along. It's like there's a quantity theory of edu-nonsense - a fixed amount of bad ideas that distribute themselves in new ways even after being debunked.

Conference season is over which means the💡Youth Policy Digest💡is back! These weekly threads surmise policy, current affairs, and research relating to young people. Today's thread covers Employment/ Education / Social Mobility. Shares appreciated ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️

If you're a child who was suspended at some point at Primary, has ever been referred to children's services, and who has ever been eligible for FSM, you have a 9% chance of being permanently excluded from Secondary school. Analysis by FFT Education Datalab ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2023/10/risk-f…

This award, equivalent to an MBE for charities, is a testament to the incredible efforts of our volunteers. Thank you to all of our supporters who remain committed to our causes 💚🧡 #KAVS #QEIIAward #celebration

NEW: Schools serving disadvantaged children have faced the biggest funding cuts. Our annual education spending report, funded by Nuffield Foundation and with a special focus on geographical differences in spending, launches today. Read the report ⬇️ifs.org.uk/publications/a…

Our vision at Youth Endowment Fund is that no child becomes involved in violence. We fund trials to find the best way to keep our children safe. But it's pointless knowing what works if nothing changes. A provocative 🧵on change, especially system change. (1/15)

Go work with Jon Yates and Ciaran Thapar (and others!). Great role at a great org

West London Zone is incredibly excited to announce the launch of our new name and brand, AllChild! We have been renewing our vision around how early intervention can be translated and tailored to each community to best serve children and families 🧵(1/4)

NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world

Wow people really don't like toothbrushing (the policy)

My paper 'Supporting Schools: how government can do a better job' published today: unitedlearning.org.uk/Portals/0/unit…

A 🧵 on unintended consequences of mental health interventions, and why some school and workplace schemes may be contributing to the problem they were designed to solve. 1/10

Delighted to share four new evaluations we are funding at Youth Endowment Fund to find what works to keep our children safe. All provide children with adults they can trust. First one: Spark2life 👇youtu.be/LN4JM_7GW1M

It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…

We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control. These are sizable transfers. 1/ 🧵

We must do what works: that means more mentoring, therapy, hotspots policing and focussed deterrence. It means less knife education programmes, awareness campaigns and knife bins. [All evidence here: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/toolkit/] (8/10)

NEW STOP AND SEARCH RESEARCH If we want to halve knife crime, we need to talk less about stop and search. A 🧵on what the largest research project on stop and search tells us. (1/17)