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Everton Free School Crime Prevention Initiatives
Stephen Baker, the principal of Everton Free School and Football College, and Assistant Head Andrew Pearl, are pioneering new strategies to address behavioural challenges and criminal exploitation among vulnerable youth in Liverpool. Their innovative approach integrates multi-agency collaboration and focuses on understanding and meeting the underlying needs of at-risk students.
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Child Safeguarding National Guidance from the DfE
We recently hosted Shazia Hussain, Director of Children's Social Care, Department for Education at our Child Safeguarding Conference 2024. Shazia covered the Latest National Guidance on Effectively Protecting and Safeguarding Children. Out of the nearly 12 million children living in England, just over 400,000 (3%) are in the social care system at any one time. The Department for Education's ambitious adjustments represent a significant step towards improving the children's social care system in the UK.
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APPG Strategies to Promote Inclusion in Schools
We were privileged to welcome L’myah Sherae, Founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Race Equality in Education and Enact Equality, to our Diversity and Inclusion in Schools Conference 2024. With ethnic minority students making up 37.0% of all students (Gov, 2024), all across the education sector need to be aware of the issues faced by these students.
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A National Update on Behaviour by The Department for Education
Tom Bellwood, the School Partnership Lead at the Behaviour Hub for the Department for Education, recently presented a comprehensive update on initiatives aimed at supporting students and staff during our Improving Behaviour in Schools Conference 2024. Bellwood shared valuable insights into the current national landscape and the Behaviour Hubs program.
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6 Key Insights from the NSPCC: A Whole School Approach to Safeguarding
We were delighted to welcome Kay Joel, from the NSPCC, to our Safeguarding Children in Schools Conference. Kay shared valuable insights on implementing a whole-school approach to safeguarding.
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Providing Equal STEM Opportunities to Inspire Students
Maria Rossini, head of education at the British Science Association, spoke at our recent STEM in Schools Conference about equal opportunities to inspire all students into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths).
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Working with Schools to Close the Pupil Premium Attainment Gap
Between 2020 and 2021 just over 2 million pupils were eligible for pupil premium, according to the Department for Education. In this video Mark Rowland, Pupil Premium Adviser at the Unity Schools partnership discusses working with schools to close the pupil attainment gap and foster a better sense of belonging for disadvantaged children.
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Developing Evidence-Based Pupil Premium Strategies: Guidance for School Leaders
In the financial year 2023-24, pupil premium spending is set to increase to almost £2.9 billion. Kate Burls, Policy Manager for the Education Endowment Foundation, discusses the importance of using evidence when allocating pupil premium spending in a school to benefit all students and close the attainment gap.
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Working in Partnership Regionally to Improve Educational Outcomes for Disadvantaged Pupils
1 in 5 children and young people in West London aren’t getting the support they need to thrive. In this video, Louisa Mitchell, Chief Executive of West London Zone shares the benefits of working in partnership to create bespoke support systems for vulnerable children and young people to help them achieve their full potential.
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Encouraging Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds to Study STEM Subjects
Schools are currently facing recruitment and retainment issues for STEM leaders, hindering the access disadvantaged students have to the subjects. In this video, Jodie McGeehan, the Principal Teacher of STEM at ST Andrew’s RC Secondary, highlights how a whole school and community support of STEM subjects has helped less advantaged students access and pursue STEM.
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Implementing School-Based Initiatives to Support Young Refugees and Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children
In the last 12 months there have been 5,000 asylum applications from unaccompanied children. In this video, Philip Taylor, Deputy Head of Broadoak School discusses the initiatives the school has adopted to help support young refugees to settle in the school and integrate them with the wider student population.
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