Seven of Blackpool’s neighbourhoods sit in the top ten most deprived in the country. FCAT’s education, employment, and training rate is 98%. From Blackpool to Stoke-on-Trent, what inclusive pathways for young people with SEND look like when places stop waiting for national policy to catch up. Last week, I was in Blackpool with The EdgeContinue reading “Prepare the world for them”
Category Archives: SEND and Inclusion
Why Team Coaching Matters Most in PRUs and Alternative Provision
Of all the settings I work with, pupil referral units and alternative provision are where sustained team coaching has the biggest effect on what children and young people actually experience. Why that is, and why this work is so often the last thing that gets funded in these settings. Team coaching in pupil referral unitsContinue reading “Why Team Coaching Matters Most in PRUs and Alternative Provision”
Inclusion is not a Policy, it is an Experience.
A story about a young person, a camping trip, and what inclusion actually looks like. On equity, opportunity, and the relational integrity that holds it all together. When Alex was in primary school, he found it hard to belong. He had been bullied by teachers, struggled to make friends, and outside of football at breakContinue reading “Inclusion is not a Policy, it is an Experience.”