We have a child mental health crisis. The headline on BBC News on 18th July 2019 was: “Child mental health unit referrals” up nearly 50%”. That was a year ago when Dr Bernadka Dubicka, chairwoman of the child and adolescent faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists said, “These figures are deeply worrying and build on evidence which shows emotional […]
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An Open Letter to Boris Johnson
21st June 2020 Dear Mr Johnson, Disadvantaged children and young people We welcome the £1billion catch up plan, with £350 million tuition for the most disadvantaged young people (children not mentioned); however, we believe the strategy is not actually dealing with the root cause. Indeed the £10million grant introduced in May last year to support tackling […]
Teachers’ passion crushed by the process!
I always remember Dame Louise Casey’s words in 2013, when she was tsar for the Troubled Families, her headline in The Guardian was “What’s missing is love”. The same can be said of the education system. The passion and love behind the teacher’s vocation; to improve the lives of children and young people has been […]
