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Because one size doesn't fit all in education | EBE led, grassroots, strategic specialists in persistent absence + barriers to school attendance | #squarepegs
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Today the government, paraphrasing the coroner, chose “Transparency and ease of message” over “teacher welfare”.
If they had to use a single word, we wish they’d chosen ‘Compassion’.
Care of Julia Waters, the words of #RuthPerry , someone we knew, loved and respected:
'Boarding School Boys Rule Britain, At What Cost?'
New podcast in The New Statesman , intervwng Richard Beard & Andrew Motion.
'The idea is to break down the child & then to remould them in a form where they will be ready to serve the Empire unquestioningly.'
newstatesman.com/podcasts/2024/…
Action for children-📢 Introducing 'Shattered lives, stolen futures: The Jay Review of Criminally Exploited Children'.
Read our full report: bit.ly/4cmVfdk
#CriminalExploitation #CountyLines #Safeguarding
Invited to deliver keynote at Nuffield Trust today.
Grateful direct lived experience, Not Fine in School family voice & some of the solutions we’ve helped to build was shared.
Research, thinking, policy development & delivery must include this to be effective & appropriate. 👍🏻
Ed Dorrell An overloaded curriculum, increasingly controlled behaviour policies, stressed out teachers, shortage of staff, inappropriate levels of testing might play a part too, as well as poverty. The UK is one of the unhappiest places in the world yet other countries had lockdowns too.
This is key:'the persistence of attendance issues may speak to a wider discontent with the education system, with more students reflecting a desire for an education that reflects their diversity & the challenges of modern childhood' Centre for Mental Health tinyurl.com/yc4p6b4k
Schools tend to be busy, noisy, crowded places. To say school is the best place for everyone is to misunderstand neurodivergence and different sensory needs. Square Peg bbc.co.uk/news/uk-688310…
What blinkin' bargain!
Mick Waters, Courageousleader, Square Peg, Dame Ann Limb DBE DL 🏳️🌈, Liz Robinson & so much more for just 80 quid if you work in a school 💃🏾🥳👨🏾🏫
The rise in school absences coincides with the rise in childhood poverty, mental health problems and longer waiting times for support. The government ‘must reduce the use of sanctions’.
Thank you for this important report Centre for Mental Health and those who contributed Square Peg.