Bart Shaw

After seven fantastic years @TheCfEY, I’m leaving with mixed emotions. I’m excited about the future and my plans to focus more on helping to improve SEND practice and policy, but at the same time I’m sad to leave. I’ll look back on my time at CfEY with joy and pride. A huge thank you to @LoicMnzs and @joehallg for the opportunities and support along the way. Here are my top ten things I’ve enjoyed: The team.

CfEY’s latest policy investigation focusses on the current and future roles of area-based partnerships. These are local, non-statutory, voluntary partnerships of schools, academies and often (but not always) the local authority, working together to take responsibility for school improvement in an area. If you work or lead in a local authority or local area based education partnership we need your help! Could you spare 10 minutes to complete this survey?

Christine Grové, Monash University, Australia Around the world young people are actively contributing to change. For example, in the United States, youth have championed for gun control across the country in extraordinary ways (Rennie, 2018) (and in sub-Saharan Africa, they are leaders in advocating and enacting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In Asia, young people were critical to developing government responses to the HIV epidemic (Cahill, Beadle and Coffey, 2013).