Helen Barnes shares her experiences of being a Learning Mentor with Sophie. She discusses the role, explores it's challenges and shares the things she loved about the job.

They also have a good chat about childcare, secondary education, children with additional needs, wellbeing in education, handwriting and the increase in childhood poverty.

Relevant Links:

Guardian article: Child poverty now costs Britain £38bn a year, says new independent report

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/19/child-poverty-now-costs-britain-38bn-a-year-says-new-independent-report

Suicide prevention charities

https://www.papyrus-uk.org/

https://www.youngminds.org.uk/

Flexible working

https://www.gov.uk/flexible-working

Ofsted report referred to in the episode - Research and analysis. Supporting SEND

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-send/supporting-send

Sir Ken Robinson

http://sirkenrobinson.com/

RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U&t=21s

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