Excellent (if a little foggy) day on Whitehawk Hill yesterday for the @divideclass Neolithic Cannibals work. Simon James led a day of sound explorations with the young artists. Just what I needed, to spend a day with these young people.

Lighthouse Brighton Festival

Teachers who want to take action to reduce education inequality in Brighton & Hove, we invite you to join our new teachers network. It will be a space to learn, share and be able to take concrete action to make positive social change. Sound good? Sign up: classdivide.co.uk/news/we-are-bu…

More organisations are now paying attention to socioeconomic diversity 🚀

That's why we put together our employer's guide to social mobility!

It features lots of tips and advice to help employers ensure that their workplace is open and accessible 👇

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Are you a working class teacher, member of support staff, or other educational professional in Brighton & Hove? Class Divide are building a teachers network in our city and we’d love you to join. classdivide.co.uk/news/we-are-bu…

ps - the group isn't just for working class teachers.

Segregation is everywhere in the state school system. This needs to change. Class Divide made a start forcing changes to admissions for FSM kids. But much more needs to be done.

Until we have an education system built for all, then we don't have an education system fit for all.✊

So many teachers tell us that they support Class Divide that we're are building a teachers network. It will be a space to learn, share & take action so BTN/Hove can be the best place to go to school in the country if you are from a low income family. classdivide.co.uk/news/we-are-bu…

Why things like Neolithic Cannibals are so important. Yet projects like these hang by a thread, conjured from scraps of funding & good will of partners and artists. Who else is going to stand up to this?

We ❤❤❤❤❤❤ these guys - please please support them their campaign has been outstanding.

There is a reason why we hear so much about benefit fraud/error (£7.3 billion, DWP data), and not so much about financial fraud (£219 billion, which is 30 times bigger). Darren McGarvey tells you why. The toxic trope of 'benefit scroungers' @UnHerd unherd.com/2024/04/the-to…

ah the irony of a play about Nye Bevan (creator of the NHS) at the National Theatre, inaccessible to anyone outside elites who bag seats months in advance & can pay hefty ticket prices. A proportion of theatre seats should be randomly allocated.  keepournhspublic.com/review-nye-one…

Do you want to understand more about the social class divide in education in our city?
Class Divide are building a teachers network and would love you to join. Find out more and show your interest here:
classdivide.co.uk/news/we-are-bu…

For anyone interested...

Trauma Industrial Complex: Trauma and Oversharing in the Age of Lived Experience- my Fringe show Aug 2-10th - is ON SALE NOW

Tickets thestand.co.uk/fringe/2036/da…

Socially Engaged Sound Art Project Debuts @ Brighton Festival 2024 Brighton Festival Class Divide Lighthouse #exhibition #Brighton #Sussex rb.gy/6mcbrd

Anita Kerwin-Nye peter dennett Class Divide It's a classic example of the council listening to some voices, while others in one of the poorest communities in the UK, go unheard.

Anita Kerwin-Nye peter dennett Class Divide For example, the money taken from BSIP to fund the downs bus for one year (notice the cliff edge), could have funded free travel to school for hundreds of kids for a year - some of these kids are being picked up from home in cars by teachers because of poverty.

Anita Kerwin-Nye peter dennett Class Divide Absolutely. The issue I have is partly technical. We have been told repeatedly by councilors and officers that BSIP funding cannot be used for funding things that aren't sustainable, and that there could be no cliff edge to services.

Curtis James peter dennett Class Divide Both important.

But school travel generally becoming a major issue. Especially for poor kids and kids with disabilities.