Do you want to transform your school canteen through social action?

Then #BiteBackinSchools is for you!

We only have 80 places for September 2024 start!

Apply now bb2030.co/SmvC #Edutwitter

Great to see our Visiting Fellow Jonny Uttley 🇺🇦 making the strong case for children and poverty to be centre stage in political debate over coming months on Politics North today.

‘Nowhere else is available’: how vulnerable children end up in illegal care homes- good work by ⁦Tom Wall⁩ following Family cases in the High Court theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

'Young Lives, Big Ambitions serves as a poignant call to action, emphasizing the urgent need to revitalize our services for young people and dismantle the tragic spiral leading towards despair and criminality.' Cherie Blair
YOUNG LIVES, BIG AMBITIONS - out 18th April

At their peak there were around 3000 sure start centres - a one stop shop for under 5s and parents - more than a thousand were closed in post 2020 austerity - others folded into other services. Now we have long term Institute for Fiscal Studies research that they paid for themselves

Coming soon 👏👏

Placing schools at the heart of a new Sure Start around a core of breakfast clubs, after school & holiday provision with joined up services wld transform neighbourhoods & with it life chances. Labour has the opportunity of delivering all gd about Sure Start in a new creative way.

Thank you Chris. And for all your inspirational campaigning. Don't stop!

This report shows Sure Start’s power to boost life chances, particularly of the most disadvantaged. Cutting early intervention spending was a historic mistake and the Family Hubs rollout does not begin to match the scale or ambition of Sure Start. bbc.co.uk/news/education…

NEW: Sure Start, England’s first large programme to provide holistic support to families with children under five, greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results.

Read Nick Ridpath Sarah Cattan Pedro Carneiro’s report, funded by Nuffield Foundation: ifs.org.uk/publications/s…

Delighted to chat about my forthcoming book with Geoff Barton for this podcast in his final precious hours in role. Thank you Geoff for your brilliant leadership, courage & unstinting championing of the importance of education for all children - and for much more to come TY.

Our N8 Research Partnership autism report featured on tonight’s ITV News with our fantastic Prof Mark Mon-Williams 🤩 Child of the North Centre for Young Lives Anne Longfield

A stock image used by Aidan Townsend for today's Sunderland Echo front to highlight waiting list issues for autism diagnosis in the city. The news comes after alarming figures were revealed in a report by Centre for Young Lives in partnership with Child of the North. #AutismAwarenessMonth

'Hunger, homelessness and gang grooming: just a normal week': Fantastic reporting from Sally Weale, who spent time at a high-achieving school where more than half of pupils are in poverty
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Exclusive: @jonnyuttley of The Education Alliance has been given a role developing policies to promote inclusive education at Centre for Young Lives
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We are just delighted that Jonny Uttley 🇺🇦 The Education Alliance is joining us Centre for Young Lives as a Visiting Fellow to develop and spearhead policies for inclusive education. We want a system that works for all children & with schools & Trusts we will be doing all we can to make that happen.

#MovingForward with #YouthWork “We look to increased devolved responsibilities and joined-up funding to present a community-based local youth offer” ⁦Cllr Ben Bradley MP⁩ ⁦Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP🌹🏳️‍🌈⁩ ⁦Children & Young People Now⁩ ⁦Centre for Young Lives⁩ cypnow.co.uk/news/article/m…

‘I did not know if I was going to get in serious trouble for it or get help for it’

Yesterday in our series, Breaking The Cycle, we heard from a mum whose son was groomed and trafficked.

Today, our reporter Jo Morris speaks to the boy who tells his own story.

Listen now ⬇️

The Supporting Families programme finally moves to the Dept for Education enabling it to link up with social care & other reforms. It is a good move that needed to happen but families will be left wondering why it took such a long time.
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‘Unexplained’ moves between schools: tens of thousands of students in one year group had an ‘unexplained’ transfer between secondary schools, Education Policy Institute research warns
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