Poverty proofing: building schools that better support disadvantaged children, Tuesday 14 March 12:00 - 13:00 |
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In 2020/21, 3.6 million children in the UK were growing up in poverty. This figure will likely continue to rise with the cost-of-living crisis. Growing up in poverty impacts all areas of a child’s life, but perhaps none more so than at school. Changing the way our school environments are structured is essential to change disadvantaged children’s lived experience, better support their development and close the educational outcome gap. Join Nesta’s Fionnuala O’Reilly in conversation with Luke Bramhall, from the charity Children North East on 14 March 12:00-13:00. They will be exploring how we can understand the realities of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds with a view to “poverty proofing” our schools, making them a fairer, healthier environment for all children. Why you should come This free online event is for anyone working in education or politics who is interested in supporting children’s development, particularly: practitioners, children and young people’s organisations, social entrepreneurs, school networks including local authorities and multi-academy trusts. Luke and Fionnuala will explore the viability of poverty proofing: asking how it can be measured, how much it costs and whether it is scalable. |
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Luke BramhallLuke Bramhall is Assistant Director of Operations at charity Children North East. Luke leads the development of the Poverty Proofing model, growing it into a nation-wide intervention that has interviewed hundreds of thousands of people on their experiences of poverty. He is also the Lead Health Inequalities Advisor for the Child Health and Wellbeing Network and regularly speaks on how poverty impacts on child health and development. Formerly a youth worker and a qualified teacher, Luke passionately believes in the importance of young people’s voices, and has a strong children's rights ethos. |
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Fionnuala O’ReillyFionnuala is the Lead Behavioural Scientist in Nesta’s fairer start mission and is currently seconded from the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) until March 2023. At BIT, Fionnuala led the team’s work on early years, which included projects to improve access to, and the quality of, early childhood education. She has also worked with various partners to help parents to create effective learning environments at home. Fionnuala is currently working towards a PhD in experimental psychology at the University of Oxford. Her research explores the development of executive function in two-five-year-old children. She also holds degrees in behavioural science from the University of Stirling (MSc) and in economics and French from the University of Limerick (BBS). |
