I have this picture on my fridge: Ida drew it a few weeks ago when she was briefly fascinated by filament bulbs. It’s an image that’s greeted me every morning throughout December, and it’s encouraged me to identify the flashes of inspiration I’ve had this year, working alongside the CfEY team, and consolidate them into…

We’re a healthy lot here at the CfEY, even at this most gluttonous time of the year. Over the next twenty-four days, we will take a well-earned break from our Friday Fives to tweet one proposal per day for the Schools White Paper.  The paper is coming sometime in the Spring and is seen as…

I was just about there at the start of SATs. Sometime in the 1990s, as I played one of those mental maths cassettes (yes cassettes) to my year 5s, and as most of them struggled, I realised the extent to which our maths teaching was letting so many kids down. I also realised how something…

Team CfEY have been hugely busy in the last few months, and we are now recruiting! Lockdown made society’s responsibility for ensuring all children and young people can make a fulfilling transition to adulthood abundantly clear. Our work providing the evidence, insight and expertise that policy makers and practitioners need is therefore more important than ever….