We’re excited to release our 2023/24 Annual Report! We now represent 135,000 learners and 83 partners, working to reduce exclusions, improve outcomes & create opportunities for young people - all while keeping peace, inclusion, & collaboration at the centre of our work.

Read more: bit.ly/4ioSMBN

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We held another successful Leaders' Breakfast meeting at the newly opened Carr Manor Community Hub this morning. Thank you to our sponsors Mod-Con Designs and LM Construction who made the event possible.
We are already looking forward to our next Leaders’ Breakfast in June. bit.ly/3DEKwyq

How the new Ofsted report cards could be improved- by giving parents what they want to know (& strengthening local professional accountability in the process) theconversation.com/how-new-ofst...

This from Gert Biesta's excellent keynote @ #icsei2025 - 3 domains of purpose for edn (qualification, socialisation & subjectification) must be held in creative balance. The point of ed is only what cannot be done without edn. Teachers can redirect students to pay attention - developing discernment

I really enjoyed this panel session on #BelongingSchools on Monday - thanks to Jamie's Farm for organising (& for your work). Riley is fab - as are Tish Fielden (from JF) & Tom Shaw from the amazing Carr Manor school in Leeds (read their Ofsted!) @jonnyuttley.bsky.social youtu.be/EfiPjv2Per8?...

🎱 'P8 is unfair to many hard-working schools, lets questionable performance go unchallenged, and hampers efforts to get under the bonnet of school improvement'

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This is a great share, thanks Jonathan!