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Dec 2, 2024 07:37pm
By Cathy B
Under Relationship Health, News, Schools, Professionals & 2024
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Conversations with Experienced Practitioners - National Curriculum and Assessment Review - November 2024
Interviews with Experienced Practitioners


In 2024 The Labour Government identified that there are some siginificant issues around what is happening in schools and why so many children are not managing.

In November 2024 there was a call for views on the national curricluum.  As part of this exercise, Cathy recorded interviews with seven experienced practitioners.

In December 2024, Keir Starmer announced that one key Government priority to raise school readiness for young children from 60% to 75%…

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Dec 2, 2024 07:37pm
By Cathy B
Under Relationship Health, News, Schools, Professionals & 2024
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Feb 27, 2016 01:59am
By Cathy B
Under Professionals & 2016
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6 Reasons Your School or Service Needs a Parent Education Strategy

 

Sometimes when I start talking about the I Matter Project I can feel a little embarrassed.  The thing is, the issues the project is addressing are really not rocket science.    It is not as if I am speaking about things that people don't already sort of know.   

The difficulty is that ideas and issues that seem quite straightforward, are not actually happening when it comes to practice.  Everyone knows for example that parenting is important when it comes to helping children, but parent …

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Feb 27, 2016 01:59am
By Cathy B
Under Professionals & 2016
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Oct 19, 2015 02:03am
By Cathy B
Under Professionals & 2015
3 min read

First Annual Conference: How Can We Really Work Together to Improve Mental Health and Educational Outcomes? Prioritising Parent Understanding and Competence

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The seeds of this conference started a long time ago from a sense of confusion and overwhelm experienced in response to the ever rising tide of need I have seen in day to day practice in health and education settings over my career of the last 20 years.  How do you turn frustration into something constructive, how do you turn this sense of overwhelm and hopelessness into something that feels worth doing?  

The final trigger for this particular conference taking shape was a sense of exas…

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Oct 19, 2015 02:03am
By Cathy B
Under Professionals & 2015
3 min read

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