“Perhaps even more damaging in the longer term will be the social, emotional and behavioural impacts of missing out on classroom learning and formative experiences during the lockdowns.” theguardian.com/education/2022…
Consecutive Governments’ education policy has failed. That’s a bitter pill to swallow; an uncomfortable truth. This isn’t blame, it’s fact. Those in corridors of power scratch heads - where and why and how has it gone wrong? And what do we need to change? A few suggestions:
1. Data is useful but is fallible, riddled with collection bias, blinkered, can lack context & can raise more questions than it seeks to solve. It can dehumanise & lacks qualitative detail, leaving a view of homogeneous data points in place of organic unique unpredictable beings.
2. Data can show where it’s going wrong but unless it is combined with agile, local, relevant, community & individual commissioning which empowers & enables, resource and spending can be wasted with scattergun & irrelevant ideologically driven solutions no use to man nor beast.
3. Co-production is essential, as is cross-party, joint & integrated working, which includes all stakeholders, especially the most marginalised & failed experts by experience, at all levels of policy work, service design, development, implementation, delivery & review.
4. Piloting, pivoting, pioneering is vital. But too many pilots do no convert to long term service delivery. This is often at huge cost to local populations who lose faith in services that are beneficial but there one minute, gone the next. Confidence & trust & safety evaporates.
5. We’re valuing the wrong KPIs. If social mobility is measured according to exam results at 16, the solution is to try to shove all CYPs thru the same cookie cutter. But attainment is a complex intersection of more than teaching & Edu services.
6. Earnings potential is also linked to mental health, physical health, wellbeing, security of housing, employment, transport, welfare, social care, wellbeing, dynamic recruitment policies, ethical employer policies, access to CPD & training, the digital divide etc.
7. Attendance does not equal attainment. Presenteeism is a barrier to growth, innovation, development & creative enterprise. Burnt out kids = burnt out adults. We have to readjust our priorities and values. Children & families policy, including Edu has to shift.
8. We can do better. Together. #3AsksforPart3 #schoolsbill #supportnotsanctions #flipthenarrative #nothingsboutuswithoutus
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