Keir Starmer (1985, BCL) is a barrister and the leader of the Labour party.

Sir Keir was called to the Bar in 1987 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2002. He practised from Doughty Street Chambers since its inception in 1990 and was appointed Head of Chambers in 2007. His main…

There are a number of important insights from Ofsted’s latest English review and it’s worth reflecting on what’s going well and what needs to be done to improve outcomes for all young people.

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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.

Crucial funding for early years providers to support disadvantaged children has fallen since 2017/18⬇️

The next government should reinstate this funding to previous levels and review the early years pupil premium to ensure disadvantaged children get the support they need.

Compelling evidence. Research now shows that the first 8000 days of a child's development are important and given the destruction of early, middle childhood and youth services. A coherent, scaffolded series of interventions across all age groups is required to drive human capital

Our fundraising team enjoyed a delicious meal at The Grove School with supporters Charles & Wayne from thefoodpeople. Since 2020, they've raised £90K+ for us! Their support helps improve food education for countless children.
Thank you for helping fuel the next generation! 🌱✨

I'm coming late to this but just got to reading the full report. The findings don't surprise me at all because Sure Start Local Programmes were rooted in evidence & targeted in the poorest areas. But successive govts made two crucial errors (I was there, as a civil servant).

As part of the End Child Poverty Coalition, we handed in a giant unhappy birthday card to @Dwpgovuk to mark 7 years of the two-child limit to benefit payments.

In this election year, all parties must commit to scrapping this unfair sibling tax. #AllKidsCount …

Our 4 values reflect the way we work at Carr Manor Community School. We're proud that they're an integral part of our through school.
#KnowOurChildrenWell #PartnersInLearning #EnjoyAndAchieve #CharacterForLearning
Thanks Signs Express Leeds for displaying them so effectively in our entrance

We all knew, those of us who benefitted personally, or who worked in schools with links to sure starts, or worked in the system could see the benefits every single day. Lives changed forever, in a good way. The destruction of sure start was utterly shameful and driven by ideology

Powerful and compelling report from Institute for Fiscal Studies on impact of Sure Start. Significant benefits in GSCE outcomes & reductions in EHCPs. On top of what we already know about savings on health, positive financial impact of Sure Start was huge.

ifs.org.uk/publications/s…

We now have over 650 literacy leaders signed up to The Literacy Community. We’re going to have an initial online gathering next week - sign up to get the details, join us or receive updates! 🙌

Many teachers use ‘cold calling’ as a way to hear from students who don’t speak up voluntarily in class. And as referenced by Learning Scientists, there is evidence that cold calling could increase girls’ participation in the classroom. Yet we know from our oracy surveys, completed by…

Montessori programs for children ages 0-6 are radical:

> Babies sleep in floor beds, not cribs
> Toddlers use knives and prepare meals
> Preschoolers predominantly work alone

Why? It has everything to do with the child's nature & needs in the 'First Plane of Development':

Wrote this recently for Centre for Young Lives. How we could change school and trust accountability to make a more inclusive education system.

centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/in…

Montessori believed there's a tempting, but mistaken, way to understand child development.

Without correcting this error, our approach to parenting & education does more than hold children back, it can warp them.

A kind of foot-binding for the soul.

The mistake goes like this:

Wow! Leeds NE School Games EAL Festival complete 🙌🏻🥳
That was awesome 👏🏻🎯 Huge thanks to our super Sports & Language Leaders from Carr Manor PE who conversed with the EAL pupils brilliantly.Thanks also to our trainee PE Teachers from Roundhay PE & Carr Manor Community School 👍🏻 Leeds Learning Alliance

We're so proud of our pupils who spoke at the Eco Conference recently!
#CharacterForLearning

And Lucie Lakin ‘s point reinforces the choices we make in education - do the right thing for the people our students will become or do the right thing for our career as leaders! Carr Manor Community School focus on the children and the adults they will become.