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Come and Join Our Team!
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….
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What next for enrichment?
One of the strangest aspects of decision-making over post-covid recovery in schools over the last few months has been the to-and-fro over extending the school day. Amongst all the “will they, won’t they” U-turns on funding and the understandable concerns over staff and the impact on teachers, an important question has been lost. Do…
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Climate crisis: Supporting a sustainable future for young people
Climate change has been described by Unicef as “a child rights crisis”, threatening children’s “health, nutrition, education, development, survival and future potential”. Young people around the world understand this risk, and they haven’t been afraid to speak out against it. The world’s most influential politicians and environmental experts have gathered in Glasgow over the past…
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Lessons from Lewisham
Supporting race equality in Lewisham’s schools Important, timely and brave work is underway in Lewisham to improve racial equality in its schools. Spearheaded by Naheeda Maharasingam, a local headteacher (and also a CfEY Fellow), a group of Lewisham headteachers and the Director of Lewisham Education, Lewisham Learning has developed a Pledge to tackle race inequalities…
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Hair is not just hair – What can schools do about hair discrimination?
Hair, regardless of colour, is a grey area. While racial discrimination is illegal under the Equalities Act 2010, it does not explicitly reference hair. As a result, schools’ approaches to hair policies appear at best uneven and at worst discriminatory. Just this year, school hair policies were thrown into the spotlight as pupils at Pimlico…
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My Big Fat Spending Review Idea: an extra school or college year for learning, working, caring and mentoring
One of the joys of working in a think-and-action tank, as opposed to being a civil servant at any rate, is that your ideas can be speculative and uncosted. When I was at IPPR at the start of this decade our senior economist let us know that if all our policy proposals across every policy…
