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Let's work together to keep promoting early intervention.
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New Institute for Fiscal Studies report reveals current provision for children with SEND is failing to deliver for those who need it.

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Dr Anna Burnett presenting at the DECP conference

Really enjoyed presenting my thesis research on Boys’ Views of Peer-on-Peer Abuse at the DECP conference last week.

Particularly enjoyed the discussion afterwards - thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas.

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Joanna Stanbridge and James Wood delivering their inspiring and timely workshop on Bringing radical calm to the eye of the storm: A framework for collegiate progress in an era of polarisation.

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Lata Ramoutar & Anita Soni’s brilliant workshop: Reflecting on the Intersection of Professional and Personal Identity: Building Culturally Responsive Practice &Challenging Inequity in Educational Psychology Practice. Introducing a new model for thinking & reflexivity.

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Joanna Stanbridge & Marc Pescod’s fantastic workshop on Perspectives & Experiences of Young People Experiencing Homelessness including Alice Wardman & Savannah Jerome’s excellent research.Lots of discussion about literacy for PfA, developing a sense of belonging & community
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An amazing buzz in the room and important conversations. Collaboration and collective thinking. #DECP2026 #psychologymatters #edpsychs

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An absolute joy celebrating the contribution of some outstanding EP colleagues at the #DECP2026 awards:
💥Jo Ward and Sarah Crawford - Distinguished Contribution
💫Sue Franklin - Special Recognition for Impact and Leadership
⭐️Sandra Dunsmuir - Lifetime Achievement

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Dr Mel Jones’ brilliant session on the factors that influence how educational psychologists prioritise work in schools and how this might impact outcomes for children and young people.

Critical consideration for equitable approaches to service delivery.

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Dr Catherine Kelly’s incredibly thought-provoking session on the ways conceptualisations of language impact on the ways that we work with young people whose families speak more than one language.

Really helpful reelections and a useful framework to think it through.

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Absolutely mind-blowing performance of Excluded by the fantastically talented Intermission Youth Theatre

Beyond brilliant not only to watch but to hear the young people involved talk about how drama, in particular Shakespeare, has such a positive impact on their lives @bpsofficial.bsky.social

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Dr Reem Ameri sharing an absolutely brilliant approach to helping marginalised young people to share their views using a 6-Step Narrative Approach.

A fun, user-friendly psychologically-situated session that has given EPs a fantastic and accessible tool to use in our work.

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Dr Jawad Shah on the need to be braver, more community-focussed more “people-first” & to value slowing things down in our educational EP practice

An inspiring & catalysing call to rethink some of our professional assumptions & to reconsider better ways to walk our values

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Dr Helena Bunn sharing some of the work the DECP committee has doing:
💫Becoming a culturally competent practitioner
💫Guidance on supporting asylum seekers
💫ECJ & Debate journals
💫EP Pre-Training events
💫’I’m an EP. Ask me what I do’ movement

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‘The culture of competition-a form of symbolic violence-is creating a sense of failure, shame & being unvalued’

‘Even happiness is reduced to a skill that children can achieve through hard work’

‘Children are under pressure to perform emotionally as well as academically’

‘Structural inequalities and oppressive assumptions within the education system harm human dignity’

‘Seeing oneself reflected and represented in the values and aspirations of the school system is indispensable for the development and preservation of self-esteem and dignity’.

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Prof Diane Reay’s stark & powerful caution on the impact of inequalities on children and young people’s happiness, sense of safety & feeling valued and wellbeing in schools.

Poverty has increased in the UK by 20% since 2024. CYP are living in Dickensian levels of poverty.
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Prof Johny Daniel on disparities in the way specific learning difficulties are identified. Likelihood predicted not by scores but by:
*school
*gender
*EAL status
*income

Critical considerations for how to support equity in identification & support

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Francesca Heffernan and Raychel Burke on their amazing work in Bury on community educational psychology as a vehicle for addressing social justice. Inspirational, and a fantastic model of innovative EP service delivery.

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Jo Ward on a groundbreaking systemic approach to shifting EP work from being mainly at the statutory end (where it has to be) the early intervention/preventative end (where it needs to be)

“Taking EPs out of our offices and into schools”

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