Alice Bradbury

Turning school inspections toxic: insights from an inquiry into Ofsted in England Research has long suggested that the policy of school inspection, implemented through the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) in England, has psychological and physical effects on teachers t...

In the fourth open access paper from our Beyond Ofsted Inquiry Graham Calvert asks the question 'what it is about the inspection process that produces toxicity?' @ioe.bsky.social @alicebradbury.bsky.social
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More or Less - How did lockdown impact children? - BBC Sounds Five years on, Tim Harford looks at the data on the effect of lockdown.

Five years on from the start of the COVID pandemic, BBC More or Less discuss impacts on young people.
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Among other research, they showcase CEPEO, @suttontrust.bsky.social & @clscohorts.bsky.social's COSMO study, with @beckymontacute.bsky.social discussing our findings.

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Primary teachers’ experiences of Ofsted inspections: ‘driving the joy out of education’ Research has long suggested that Ofsted, the school inspection service in England, has a negative impact on teachers and school leaders. Concern over this issue intensified following media reports ...

🚨 Just published! A new article on why primary schools have found Ofsted so difficult.

Article by @alicebradbury.bsky.social, @janeeperryman.bsky.social, Graham Calvert & Kate Killian (@ioe.bsky.social)

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Primary teachers’ experiences of Ofsted inspections: ‘driving the joy out of education’ Research has long suggested that Ofsted, the school inspection service in England, has a negative impact on teachers and school leaders. Concern over this issue intensified following media reports ...

New article on why primary schools have found Ofsted so difficult:

@janeeperryman.bsky.social
@hhcp-ucl.bsky.social
@ioe.bsky.social

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Professor Alice Bradbury (@hhcp-ucl.bsky.social), originally a teacher herself, now researches the relationship between schools, and policy, and reproduction of inequality. #IOELectures

Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries The authors will present their research findings. We will also discuss how the education sector is supporting vulnerable communities.

Thank you. Book launch on 25 Feb at 4.30. Register here:

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A detailed analysis of the new #ofsted proposals:

Nearly half of schools give families financial help, teachers say A survey of teachers in England suggests lots of schools are having to provide extra help for families.

Great to see wider recognition of this - BBC News - 'We don't just teach - we clothe the kids, feed them and brush their teeth'
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Just published a book on the topic policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/food-banks-i...

Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries - The Education Sector’s Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis; Drawing on case studies of 12 primary schools and early years settings across England, this book ex...

📚 Check out the 'Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries' #OpenAccess book publication, co-authored by @alicebradbury.bsky.social and Sharon Vince! #foodbanks #foodinsecurity #primary #earlyyears

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Food banks in schools and nurseries: The education sector’s responses to the cost-of-living crisis | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society How is the education sector supporting vulnerable communities? Hear from Alice Bradbury and Sharon Vince.

We will have a book launch event on 25 February to celebrate this publication. For more info and to register:

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Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries The authors will present their research findings. We will also discuss how the education sector is supporting vulnerable communities.

Book launch event on 25 Feb - all welcome!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-banks...

My latest book co-authored with @SharonMarie80 is out today!

Published #OpenAccess so free to all to download

#foodbanks #foodinsecurity
#primary #earlyyears

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Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries

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Food banks in schools and nurseries: The education sector’s responses to the cost-of-living crisis | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society How is the education sector supporting vulnerable communities? Hear from Alice Bradbury and Sharon Vince.

🔔 New book launch event: Join @alicebradbury.bsky.social
and Sharon Vince to celebrate the publication of 'Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries: The Education Sector’s Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis'.

For more info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Food banks in schools and nurseries: The education sector’s responses to the cost-of-living crisis | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society How is the education sector supporting vulnerable communities? Hear from Alice Bradbury and Sharon Vince.

🔔 New book launch event: Join @alicebradbury.bsky.social and Sharon Vince to celebrate the publication of 'Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries: The Education Sector’s Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis'. For more info and to register:

www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

This Special Issue Call centres on Race, Gender and Representation in Higher Education, a timely and important topic-- spread the words, and send in your abstracts!

This Special Issue Call focuses on 'Bourdieu and intersectionality'-- see the details, share the call, and send your abstracts!

Centre for Young Lives report warns poverty and hardship are preventing some children from attending school amid big increases in persistent and severe absence among children receiving Free School Mea... Anne Longfield, Executive Chair of the Centre for Young Lives think tank, is today (Tuesday December 3rd) publishing a new report, ‘Too Skint for School’, examining the link between poverty and school...

“We can’t tackle attendance if we don’t tackle poverty”

In a country as wealthy as ours no child or their family should be going without the essentials. No Government wishing to reduce school absence can ignore the role that poverty plays in driving it www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...

A welcome development, but I'd be really grateful if everyone could stop announcing stuff and publishing reports as I have to keep updating a report I've just written!

Thank you. I found the talks really interesting. I hope the government are listening!

Education in a broken welfare state – the role schools play in supporting their communities Without easy access to other support services, families increasingly turn to schools for help. In this panel discussion, researchers, practitioners and policymakers will debate the role schools alread...

Happening today! Join us at this @ERP_IOE 'What Matters in Education?' event . The panel will discuss the role of schools in supporting communities.

🗓️ 9 December
🕠 5:30-7 pm

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📎 The journal Education 3-13 invites submissions for a special issue about the future of national curricula. Check out the link below for more details:

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Our response to the PM's announcement today. Direction of travel is sensible, but a government that is this early on and with a sizeable majority can and needs to be bold. All eyes on the SR and Child Poverty Strategy next year.

Keir is right to point out the issues with school readiness, but what he didn't highlight was that, for children eligible for Free School Meals, the proportion achieving a good level of development is barely over *50%*. And the gap between poorer kids and their peers is on the rise...

When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure.

The PM's inclusion of #earlyyears in today's milestones is welcome, but the fact is the pressure to increase EYFS profile results will fall on schools, who do the assessment. And teacher asst is more sensitive to outside pressures.

Food banks in schools and nurseries: The education sector’s responses to the cost-of-living crisis | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society How is the education sector is supporting vulnerable communities? Hear from Alice Bradbury and Sharon Vince.

🔔 New book launch event: Join @alicebradbury.bsky.social and Sharon Vince to celebrate the publication of 'Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries: The Education Sector’s Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis'.

For more info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

YouTube video by UCL Minds Lunch Hour Lectures Lunch Hour Lecture | Beyond ‘Beyond Ofsted’ – the future of school inspection

📹 Watch below the video recording of the Lunch Hour Lecture ‘Beyond Ofsted’ – the future of school inspection' with Professors @alicebradbury.bsky.social and @janeeperryman.bsky.social:

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It's great to hear early years being discussed on the news, but I wish they'd stop referring to EYFSP stats as showing how many children are 'ready for school'. They've already been at school for a year!

We need to talk about #foodpoverty in the #earlyyears - under-fives are more likely to face food poverty which is damaging for early development - see our new report on this important but neglected topic

The Knowledge: Early years food poverty and how to address it A new EPI report calls on government to close the gap between meal provision in schools and in the early years

EPI Senior Researcher @kerriscooper.bsky.social writes for Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social on the problem of food poverty for under 5’s and how it can be addressed.

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