Hayley Sherwood’s Post

Did you know 1 in 5 Australian children start school already behind their peers? Learning Links exists to support these children - in the early years and throughout their schooling. We work in partnership with families, early childhood settings, schools, professionals and organisations to provide expertise and evidence-based supports to help these children build the skills and confidence to catch up. Without access to specialised supports, these children can fall further and further behind. Swipe through to see why these children need our help. 📑 Read our latest Impact Report here: https://ow.ly/KYCv50Uloz2 #ImpactReport #AnnualReport #OrganisationalMission

The new National Audit Office's report, Improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged children, finds that the DfE does not have a good overview of what it spends, or how effective it is, and has no evidence to justify the significantly lower levels of disadvantage funding in early years. We urge government to look at ways to better target disadvantage funding, especially within the early years, so the gap can be closed for children before they start school. https://ow.ly/yoeE50SI9yh

Every Child Our Future works with schools, teachers, parents, businesses, our island’s government and the wider community to ensure that every child in Jersey gets the educational foundations they need to thrive and to make choices to shape their futures. Our guiding principles inform our long-term vision as well as shaping our day to day focus: Early Intervention: We believe that focused intervention early in a child’s life has the biggest impact. Working in Partnership: We work in partnership with schools, government, community volunteers, corporate partners, and other organizations to deliver support to children. Building Foundations: We focus on building the foundations of children’s learning. For this reason, our programmes include supporting the development of language, literacy and numeracy skills, the building blocks of education. Tackling Inequality: We believe that every child should have the same opportunities in life. We therefore focus our efforts on those with the greatest need. Enduring Impact: We strive to develop interventions which will have enduring impact. For this reason, we adopt an evidence-based approach, piloting programmes and developing them in collaboration with schools and the Government in the hope and expectation that they will embed such programmes as part of school life.

ICYMI: School choice advocates fear Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro is flipping on education promise: Advocates for school choice have raised concerns that Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has flipped on the issue despite his campaign promise to support it, which proponents argue is only depriving the state’s children of educational opportunities.  #Pennsylvania #schoolchoice #schoolvouchers #JoshShapiro #publicschool #publiceducation

Some really excellent points in this article. How can it be right that not all parents have access to the Ombudsman? If we want a system where the majority of children get their needs met without a plan then let’s give their parents redress without a plan.

Quality Education focuses on the whole child-the social, emotional, mental, physical, and cognitive development of every child. At Children Empowerment Funds, we believe quality education is giving a chance to every child regardless of their background. . . . We would like to know what you think about quality education and what you are doing about that. Feel free to use the comment section 👇 #ChildrenEmpowermentFunds #EducationForAll #Education #childrensbooks #QualityEducation

School's (almost) out for another year. As always plenty of highs and lows, the extremes of each seem to be getting greater each year (getting old?). Whatever this new government do, they really must invest in children. They must invest in SEND so that inclusion actually works, invest in AP for those for whom inclusion is not possible, invest in social services so that those families in crisis get timely help, invest in child and adolescent MH so that they can find positives in life and grow up healthy & happy, invest in providing time for the adults who work with children to have the time to breathe and access the CPD & support they need to be as effective at their jobs as they can be. Finally and most importantly, show us that you trust us and value us. We're here because we care and believe in what we do.

Insightful read, showing that even education staff have children who struggle with the system their parent works within. I have always personally championed a support first approach, way before the pandemic & wave of current support for a relational approach since. I’m grateful the system is catching up but we have such a long way to go before all schools & LAs are on board with changing their beliefs around the reasons children are not at school from a root cause perspective & always looking for the quick fix. We must all try harder to ensure access to education is more important than just bums on seats attendance targets! https://lnkd.in/e-c2VdyH

I really enjoy reading Sean Harris FCCT's blog on Substack, providing succinct overviews, helpful further links and though-provoking research, all of which make keeping informed on news and updates in education easy to access and interesting to read. Sean is 'passionate about tackling educational inequality' and this is clear to see in his insightful posts. A recommended read! Click the link below to read and subscribe. #educationalblog #educationalinequality #educationnews

Let's help youth in #fostercare achieve their educational goals! Learn about #programs that include support for finishing high school; planning for postsecondary education; and accessing financial supports for postsecondary #education. #FosterCareMonth https://buff.ly/3PC8KMu