In our book, About Our Schools: Improving on Previous Best, we offer an analysis of eight areas of schooling, including one entitled “Circumstances, disadvantage, parents, community, early years and adolescence – lives under a cloud”, which will be of particular interest for practitioners working with disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of children.
The book is part history of the past 45 years of education policy, part analysis of conversations with a hundred individuals including 14 former Education Secretaries, part scholarly research, and part personal experience and values.
Our interviews with Secretaries of State were fascinating. They showed them as considerate and compassionate people for the most part, although only four had significant impact. The rest were either inhibited by the policy agenda they inherited, too briefly in post or controlled by Number 10.
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