Sir David Bell, Former Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education, talks to Sally about research, politics and the critical role that civil servants play in helping Ministers to navigate evidence. This is a journey through more than twenty years of children's policy from Every Child Matters, through raising the school leaving age, the Academies act to Labour's current thinking on early education.

Sir David Bell, Former Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education, talks to Sally about research, politics and the critical role that civil servants play in helping Ministers to navigate evidence. This is a journey through more than twenty years of children's policy from Every Child Matters, through raising the school leaving age, the Academies act to Labour's current thinking on early education.

Mobilise - EP1 - David Bell

Mobilise podcast from the Centre for Research on Play and Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.&nbsp; Mobilise is a mini -series in which Sally Hogg, Senior Policy Fellow at University of Cambridge, talks to leading policymakers and politicians from across the UK about how research can be used in policy to improve children's lives. We'll be finding out about the things our guests have achieved for children and about the challenges that arise when trying to use research -based evidence in complex political environments.&nbsp; If you've got any interest in research, child development and children's policy, then this is a podcast for you.&nbsp; For more information about PEDAL and to access our wider resources, please visit our website, pedalhub.net

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Mobilise podcast from the Centre for Research on Play and Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.  Mobilise is a mini -series in which Sally Hogg, Senior Policy Fellow at University of Cambridge, talks to leading policymakers and politicians from across the UK about how research can be used in policy to improve children's lives. We'll be finding out about the things our guests have achieved for children and about the challenges that arise when trying to use research -based evidence in complex political environments.  If you've got any interest in research, child development and children's policy, then this is a podcast for you.  For more information about PEDAL and to access our wider resources, please visit our website, pedalhub.net

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