The focus? How we build an education system where every child, regardless of background, can thrive.
It was a significant moment - not just because of where we were, but because young people were at the heart of the conversation. They sat around the famous Cabinet Room table, sharing their experiences of exclusion, disengagement and marginalisation - not as case studies, but as experts in their own lives.
For our founder, this was deeply personal. As he shared at the roundtable, he was excluded from school as a child - an experience that left him feeling isolated and unwelcome. That experience stayed with him, and it’s a big part of why he founded Mission 44. He knows, as do so many young people we work with, what it feels like to be written off.
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