CfEY Head of Policy Bart Shaw speaks to Simon Knight, Joint Headteacher at Frank Wise School and National SEND Leader at Whole School SEND, about all things SEND.

In this episode, Bart Shaw, Head of Policy at The Centre for Education and Youth, shares with Phil Yeeles a selection of research that he has been reading lately. This episode looks first at Ofsted’s recent report on supporting pupils with SEND, before moving on to FFT Education Datalab’s recent piece on attainment disparity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, Bart shares a recent history of schools policy since devolution in 1999.

This episode of The Youth and Education Podcast is the first in a special series, taking an in depth look at the topics explored in the new CfEY book 'Young People on the Margins'. CfEY Associate Alix Robertson listens in to a fireside chat between CfEY Chief Executive Loic Menzies and CEO of the Reach Foundation Ed Vainker, as they discuss their journeys through the education sector and how these experiences relate to themes from the book.

In this episode, Baz Ramaiah, Associate with the Policy Strand at The Centre for Education and Youth, shares with Phil Yeeles a selection of research that he has been reading lately. This episode focusses on social class and social mobility. Baz and Phil talk about the political context and consequences of the 1944 Education Act; a longitudinal study looking at how social mobility has changed over the past several decades, and a recent piece of research looking at why British people tend to over-identify as working-class.

In this episode of The Youth and Education Podcast, Trainee Associate at CfEY Vanessa Joshua talks to Alice Wilcock, Senior Policy Analyst at the Centre for Social Justice about exclusions, alternative provision and the new APPG on School Exclusions and Alternative Provision.

In this episode of The Youth and Education Podcast, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson chairs a roundtable discussion on the 'digital divide', with a panel of guests.

In the episode of The Youth and Education Podcast, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson interviews Behaviour and Education Specialist Adele Bates.

In the episode of The Youth and Education Podcast, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson interviews Professor Becky Francis, CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation.

In this episode, Dr Sam Baars, Director of Research and Operations at The Centre for Education and Youth, shares with Phil Yeeles a selection of research that he has been reading lately. This episode focusses on area-based inequalities. Sam and Phil talk about the different ways in which researchers classify areas, the factors that drive young people to move out of the areas they grew up in, and the issues that specifically affect coastal towns.

In the episode of The Youth and Education Podcast, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson interviews Dr Hilary Leevers, CEO of Engineering UK.