I lay every burden down, at the foot of the cross.

Newly launched by the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), EPIC is a free, digital self-assessment tool designed with and for education leaders to help understand how well their current practice aligns with the evidence on preventing children’s involvement in violence. Access the EPIC

More than half of headteachers (51%) say they don’t feel confident identifying and delivering interventions to prevent children’s involvement in violence. Use our Education Practice Insight Creator, a new self-assessment tool for education leaders, to get evidence-based

Equipping young people with social-emotional skills "...means they’re much more likely to be able to stay away from violence.” Dennis Simms, our Assistant Director – Education, Insights & Collaboration. Full @tes article: https://t.co/TwqdM9pgtF #EvidenceBasedPractice

Join our Virtual Learning Cafe tomorrow!! 👇

Are you passionate about preventing youth violence and driving evidence-based change? Join us! We have three fantastic roles, with deadlines approaching: ➡️ Head of Change, Children’s Services (Closing: 24 September) ➡️ Assistant Director of Public Affairs and Partnerships

A PSHE lead at an all girls’ school shares her concerns about a new wave of online misogyny –and sets out what schools can do to help keep students safe https://t.co/6e8DmLwPvq

📣 New opportunity to join the YEF team as an Assistant Director of Public Affairs and Partnerships. We are looking for an exceptional individual to lead on building and maintaining brilliant partnerships across government, with other funders and with wider society, whilst also

Some personal news… Meet the Tedstones 💍

Out of office on. I’m off to get married!!!! 💍

What is the relationship between poverty and violence? To better understand how poverty impacts a child's risk of violence read our new research, ‘Evidence Review on Poverty and Youth Crime and Violence’: https://t.co/01Y3suw3AX #EvidenceBased #Poverty #NewResearch

All ready for my final focus group tomorrow. #PhDLife

Exciting new role at EEF! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

4/4 Due to my connection with the topic and to support immersion, I have created my own collage. I hope it offers a glimpse into why I am so passionate about ensuring schools are better equipped to support children hidden in the shadows of a parent’s misuse.

3/4 As you can imagine, this is an extremely sensitive and difficult topic to talk about openly but I was so moved by their engagement in the session and their creative outputs which powerfully illuminated the challenges experienced by this vulnerable cohort of young people.

2/4 This included how they feel, how they learn, their friendships and relationships with adults, and also their hopes for the future.

PhD Update - 1/4 Yesterday, I had the privilege of leading my 1st research session with a group of YP who have experience living with parental alcohol misuse. Each participant created a collage which highlighted how their parent’s drinking might affect their experience of school

On Friday, I start data collection for my PhD & will be creating collages with a group of children. One of my neighbours kindly donated these papers from the 1980s. Having so much fun looking through them!

Unreal.

NEW Blog: Following new figures from @educationgovuk on suspensions and exclusions in 2023/24, there’s growing concern about the impact on children’s safety. Children who are repeatedly suspended or excluded often miss large amounts of school—and are at greater risk of becoming