⏳Day 1: The value of pupil premium has fallen in real terms over the past decade. DfE could allocate £640 million from savings from falling pupil rolls to reverse these cuts and provide additional targeted funding for persistently disadvantaged pupils through enhanced premium.

Making care experience as a protected characteristic has the potential to create greater opportunities for our most vulnerable young people in care. Under the Equality Act, it would be unlawful for local authorities to place children in conditions of neglect or danger. We can

📅Day 2-Disadvantage is funded at least one-third higher in secondary schools than in 16-19 education, despite England having a compulsory education age of 18 and a disadvantage gap that continues to widen post-16. #EPIAdventCalendar

📅Day 3: Rates of suspension are at their highest level since public records began. #EPIAdventCalendar

'We find that the number of children ‘missing from education’ increased by 40 per cent from 2017 to 2023' Education Policy Institute's Whiney Crenna-Jennings buff.ly/3Bff20y

📅Day 4: Between 2019 and 2023, disadvantage gap widened in early years, primary schools and secondary schools. In primary and secondary schools the gaps are now wider than at any point in the last decade. #EPIAdventCalendar

🚨NEW: Today, the Education Policy Institute publishes its report on Children Missing from Education We explore estimates, trends, and the characteristics of children missing from school. Continue below for our key findings👇

📅Day 5: This graph suggests that the ‘age-gap’ trend in children not in school is becoming more pronounced over time – particularly post-pandemic.#EPIAdventCalendar

Improve your comprehension of the distinctions and implications of #PTSD versus #ComplexPTSD with this brilliant FREE ACAMH Learn interview with Rachel Hiller on ‘Complex PTSD’. Includes discussions around effective treatment approaches. bit.ly/40QnmhA

In this #OpenAccess paper, Sarah E. Stock (UCL EPH) et al. utilised the twin-difference design to test whether the presence of a warm and supportive adult protects against #MentalHealth problems in children exposed to #Adversity. bit.ly/3OccnYm

Off to London for Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma strategy day Reviewing last year's achievements & setting goals for 2025 We are a collaborative community working together to promote and facilitate the recovery of those who have experienced childhood trauma.  irct.org.uk

For many children with a parent in prison, it is not as simple as just missing a loved one who is away. For the 21% of children we support who are not allowed contact, or the 54% of children who have witnessed domestic abuse, emotions around their parent being sent to prison are

Wonderful to catch up with Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma Trustees for our strategy day. Great to review our achievements this year. Exciting projects planned for 2025! Honoured to have also been appointed as Vice-Chair of the Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma! irct.org.uk

Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma Strategy day. Trustees met today to review the year and plan activities for 2025. Great to welcome our new Trustee Claire - Doctoral Researcher - Department of Social Care and Social Work Faculty of Health and Education - Manchester Met and Fellow of Cumberland Lodge

Just joined... Where is everyone? Actually quite excited! #CompassionEdRevolution ✊️👊✊️👊✊️ bsky.app/profile/drjonr…

12 Days of Research - Day 4 Compassionate support in schools can boost teacher wellbeing and create a more emotionally supportive environment for students. brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/… #12DaysOfResearch Oxford Brookes University Dr Jon Reid Ⓥ

🧵 Ahead of the 2024 general election, the UK’s five leading children’s charities (Action for Children Barnardo’s National Children's Bureau NSPCC The Children's Society) came together with the support of almost 200 organisations to ensure the next government would put children at the table. (1/4)

After many successes the #ChildrenAtTheTable campaign comes to an end this month, but we will continue working together to ensure good childhoods are a national priority. Read our story: childrenatthetable.org.uk/impact-report-… Action for Children Barnardo’s National Children's Bureau NSPCC The Children's Society

No child or young person in Care should EVER be moved with bin liners. No Matter What. Its just not acceptable. #Fact #ECLCM #ECM

On UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 International Day of Education exploring the theme of AI and education We are pleased to share that our colleague Matthew Wimpenny-Smith FCCT 🙋‍♂️👾👨‍💻 Oxford Brookes University is collaborating with Raspberry Pi Foundation to develop an AI education framework for UK schools unesco.org/en/days/educat…