Today’s Education Questions was the first of the new Parliamentary session. With little opportunity for detailed policy announcements over the summer there was always the potential it would be a somewhat bitty session, punctuated only with the inevitable boasts from MPs wishing to promote school results in their constituencies and a few bashes from Gove about the upcoming strikes. Thankfully there were a few more positives (not least Gove recording his thanks to teachers for their efforts in continually improving school quality) but there was also the downside of the questions being very patchy indeed.
It’s a Thursday, so after finishing work yesterday I headed over to a local community centre and spent the evening as part of a team running a weekly youth club. We ate sausage rolls, chatted about how everyone’s week has been and worked on a digital art project that the young people have been leading…
This year, national youth work week coincides with the six-week anniversary of starting my new role at CfEY. So I thought I’d take this chance to share some of my thoughts from over 20 years of working with youth work organisations and my hopes for the future of the sector. My message to the government…
This blog summarises our work with Mishcon de Reya on public legal education. As we think about the next steps for this research, we’d love to hear your thoughts. What is Public Legal Education (PLE)? Currently there is no single or fixed definition of Public Legal Education (PLE), although there is some consensus as to…
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