The #GoodChildhoodReport 2024 is here, and it shows concerning findings for the wellbeing of children in the UK. We see a continuing decline in young people’s wellbeing. This must end now. Read more in the full report: childrenssociety.org.uk/good-childhood

📢Responding to Ofsted's Big Listen natalie perera ,Chief Executive, Education Policy Institute (EPI), said:

Vindication for the most principled; insightful and courageous within #Education. To those who agreed yet stayed quiet, the former represented your best interests and did your work:

#MentalHealth Update: Consultant clinical psychologist writing to The Guardian: 'The “staggering” rise in anxiety among children deserves a more sophisticated response than installing counsellors in every school': theguardian.com/society/articl…

Compelled to add this following yesterday's profoundly moving published inquiry findings re: #Grenfell 😢💢Is this what being apologetic looks like in action? To quote The Prime Minister at #PMQs...then watch the video link and commentary by Robert Peston:

'#Ofsted has named the members of seven new external reference groups that will offer “independent advice and challenge” as it embarks on wide-ranging reforms': schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-names-n… Many familiar names from the previous Conservative led administration:

#Schoolchildren living in London's ultra-low emission zone (#ULEZ ) were nearly four times as likely to switch to walking and cycling after its introduction compared with those outside the zone, new research suggests': bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… FYI: Bromley Living Streets Clean Air in London etc

"Go back to the Department for Education & rip up the behaviourist approach to education. It creates a world where neurodiverse children, those with anxiety, mental health and even the timid cannot survive." Absolutely agree 💙Rachael Maskell MP 👏 Square Peg Not Fine in School

'More than 100 health groups are urging Britain’s #lawmakers/#MPs to reject offers of gifts + hospitality from “unhealthy products industries” because they use an array of underhand tactics to disguise the harm they create in order to protect their sales' theguardian.com/politics/artic…

'It's really messing with their minds in a big way.' Asked by James O'Brien if other countries will follow Brazil's lead in tackling social media disinformation, Tony Blair notes its impact on young people and stresses that 'we can't go on like this'.

Not long home but compelled to sing praises of Andrew Flintoff with words that are ever so positive yet also evidently heartfelt fundamentals to v.real journey of learning in #cricket yet e'where in education+beyond to what will hopefully be success on national stage e.g. #JoshHull:

'Schools Minister, Catherine McKinnell , is calling on #schools to enhance #PhysicalEducation (PE)+school sport opportunities for pupils with special educational needs + disabilities (SEND), in the spirit of Paralympic Games': gov.uk/government/new… Hub Link: education.activityalliance.org.uk

As senior HMI responsible for intro of CVA at Ofsted I'm pleased Prof George Leckie and The Northern Powerhouse Partnership have continued to highlight inadequacies of P8. New Fairer Schools Index coming soon. The last one showed massive differences in performance compared to P8. We must do better.

I've been a member of a DfE Expert Advisory Group (Wellbeing) due to my research/applied work in the field over many years. I said it then, and I say it now. DfE expert groups should always include teachers. I mean classroom teachers. Their voice -an expert voice- must be heard.

'#Schools WILL play a key role in hosting the government’s new youth hubs as part of a reimagining of New Labour’s Sure Start scheme. Could Oasis’s school community hubs provide the blueprint for Sure Start 2.0?': schoolsweek.co.uk/the-oasis-hubs…

#PSHE: 'Children’s Commissioner responds to new figures on children referred to #mentalhealth support for anxiety': childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/blog/childrens…

#PSHE #Smartphones #Screentime Case Study: 'Calvijn College was one of the first schools in the Netherlands to ban mobile phones. Four years on, officials report its culture has been transformed': theguardian.com/world/article/…

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England #Hockey CPD available: hockeyhub.englandhockey.co.uk/?user_id=10510…

Leading medical experts are calling for free school meals for all children in the UK to address the impact of childhood obesity. Prof Steve Turner, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, tells #R4Today 'it's the sensible thing to do'.