Our next SEN Policy Research Forum event will take place on 6 December 2024.
The focus will be on curriculum. More details about the speakers and venue, together with booking details, to follow.
You are warmly invited to our next free SEN Policy Research Forum Seminar
Re-engaging with education: The causes, risks and implications of disengagement from education, and how we might do things differently.
Our speakers are:
Ellie Costello, Director, Square Peg
Dr Ian Thompson, Co-Principal Investigator: Excluded Lives: The Political Economies of School Exclusion, University of Oxford
Steve Chalke, Founder, Oasis Charitable Trust
Kerrigen Marriner, Head of Behaviour and Attendance Service, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The coverage/aims of the session:
In the light of the government’s recent ‘attendance counts’ campaign, this seminar aims to explore the following questions:
To what extent does the government’s Attendance Counts campaign acknowledge and address the underlying issues that lead to persistent absence?
What are the causes of disengagement from education?
What are the implications of this disengagement from education?
How might we imagine things differently?
Please follow this link to sign up: https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/ucl-institute-of-education-b14/ioe-phd-centre-for-inclusive-education-ka7/ka7-sen-policy-research-forum-seminar-re-engaging-with-education
We hope to see you there.