As schools across the country prepare for the new academic year, Conversations on Character welcomes Director of Academies at United Learning, Patron of the NCS and Chair of the 2016 Coates review of prison education, Dame Sally Coates.

A school leader for over twenty years Dame Sally reflects on how teachers have responded to the pressures of the pandemic, how she has transformed behaviour standards in her schools through a focus on role modelling and the place of character in the rehabilitation of prisoners five years on from the review which she led.