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New essay on trauma and children’s social care published
I am pleased to have contributed a short essay to The Centre for Social Justice’s new publication, Trauma: The Long-Term Impact, looking at trauma and the children’s social care system. In my essay, I recount some of what I have learnt from the frontline practitioners I have spoken with, about their experiences of supporting children…
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Windows and Mirrors: Children and young people’s access to diverse literature
“Imagine loving stories, inhaling book after book, imagine books being such an important part of your life. Now imagine never seeing yourself in books, never seeing someone who looks like you or feels like you. Imagine never seeing someone like you as the hero of the story. Imagine never believing you can be a hero…
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Coverage of CfEY and University of Oxford’s research
Last week saw the launch of two important reports on oracy. In partnership with the University of Oxford, The Centre for Education and Youth published its report ‘Oracy after the pandemic’. This research informed the Oracy All-Party Parliamentary Group’s Speak for Change report, which we drafted using evidence supplied by the APPG. You can access…
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Oracy after the pandemic
Oracy APPG report ‘Speak for Change’ published today In 2016 The Centre for Education and Youth published The State of Speaking, in partnership with Voice 21 and Big Change. This research revealed that while teachers prioritised oracy highly, they were rarely able to give it the attention they felt it deserved. This research spurred the…
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Causation in Evidence-Based Policymaking and Education: 3 Tools to Help You Think About It More Effectively
This is a story about how a misunderstanding of a simple concept lost taxpayers $10 billion. In the first part of this blog, I’ll share this story. All of the characters in it are well meaning professionals. They acted out a script that will be familiar to anyone interested in evidence-based policymaking. There’s also a…
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White working class pupils and the CRED report
Today our Director of Research Dr Sam Baars was interviewed on LBC, as part of a discussion on outcomes for white working class young people in the wake of the report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. Sam fed into the Education Select Committee’s inquiry into ‘left behind’ white working-class pupils in October…
