"It’s made my practice better because I have that background knowledge I didn’t have before" 🗨️ Safeguarding and Welfare Officer Sally shared how Place2Be's free Mental Health Champions- Foundation Programme boosted her confidence in her role. 👇 place2be.org.uk/about-us/impac…

🎧 "Evidence into Action" In the latest episode of our podcast, we focus on supporting school attendance. Featuring special guests, Owen Carter of ImpactEd Group, @Jelsworth1 of Huntington Research and Oliver Kerr of OldMoatPS. Listen: eef.li/C0vd30

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…

NEW: Access to Sure Start greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results, by as much as three GCSE grades. THREAD on Nick Ridpath, Sarah Cattan and Pedro Carneiro’s new report, funded by Nuffield Foundation, on Sure Start’s impact on educational outcomes: [1/10]

Our Teaching and Learning Toolkit is designed to support teachers and school leaders in identifying promising approaches to improving learning in their classrooms. This comprehensive ‘how to’ guide offers a step-by-step introduction to using it. 👉eef.li/Ty42WP

No, no, no!! As wonderfully generous as our communities & charities are, this is not the way forwards - address systemic poverty & wealth inequality, charity cannot be normalised as the response to such state failure! It is not a sustainable solution! theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Today, in collaboration with Welsh Government, we’ve helped to launch a Welsh-language Teaching and Learning Toolkit. Read the Welsh language news piece: eef.li/tX8k3x Read the English version: eef.li/43G6BX 1/3

NEW: Today, we’ve published our new edition of “A School’s Guide to Implementation”, a resource designed to support those working in education settings to make changes to practice meaningful, and long-lasting. Info: eef.li/CPpH9K Download: eef.li/implementation 1/5

“Improving attendance is a multifaceted mission, requiring different approaches in different contexts. " The EEF’s Freya M introduces our resource to help schools reflect on their approach to supporting attendance. More info: eef.li/n62kKh

🚨 Congratulations to our CEO, Prof Becky Francis, who has been appointed by Bridget Phillipson to lead the government's independent review of curriculum and assessment.

📢 So today we’ve launched our annual survey, to help us understand the pressures and priorities you’re currently facing and make sure that the support we offer is as helpful and relevant as possible. 2/4

💡 We’ve launched Promising Programmes, a new resource which identifies programmes that have previously been shown to have a positive impact on attainment and how to access them. 1/2

🚨NEW Funding! 🚨 We have a new Open Call now available for organisations working to reduce young people's involvement in violence, and have the potential to undergo rigorous evaluation. If your project supports young people aged 10-18 and fits within one of our seven key

⏳ Schools and pupils deserve better. Urgent action is needed to end it. 👉 Find out how schools are being made to spend their budgets: teachfirst.org.uk/press-release/…

NEW BLOG 📝 Read our blog by Aoife O’Higgins, Director of Evidence, about our new funding call to strengthen the evidence base on what works to support kinship families. Check it out here: foundations.org.uk/building-the-e…

We’ve launched our latest funding round focused on the #Post16 and #EarlyYears sector. If you have a programme in one of the sub-theme areas ready for an impact evaluation or if you need support further piloting an approach, we would love to hear from you. See details ⬇️

🌟 Have you explored our Early Years Evidence Store recently? Check out the latest updates, including a summary of strategies and activities to promote positive mental health and wellbeing in the early years. Explore: ow.ly/3oPK50TTi1Q

📣Calling all educators! We’re looking for new members to join the EEF Exchange, a collective of educators who are passionate about putting evidence to use. We’d love to have your expertise and input as we discuss our support for the sector. Info: tinyurl.com/4wv6vtmn

🌟Today's the day! We’re delighted to open recruitment for 11 brand new programmes for schools, focusing on our priority themes of writing and secondary maths. 1/3

📢 I’m excited to finally share this EEF trial. CoachBright’s Peer-to-Peer Coaching aims to improve maths attainment by training Year 10 pupils to support a Year 7 peer. Places are limited to only 100 schools so register interest early ⬇️ CoachBright coachbright.org/eef