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Response to New Ofsted Report Cards
The Fair Education Alliance responds to the proposals from Ofsted for new Report Cards for schools.
What’s next for the Youth Steering Group?
On Saturday the Fair Education Alliance’s Youth Steering Group gathered in Leeds for a training day, and to take part in a session on our strategy refresh.
Angel, a Youth Steering Group member, shares her thoughts on the experience.
A Unique Identifier for Children
We were so pleased to see one of our recommendations from our Fair Education Priorities - a unique identifier for children - appear in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
A ‘Child-centred Government’- what does this look like in practice?
Thomas from the Fair Education Alliance Youth Steering Group shares his thoughts after attending the recent APPG on Children to discuss the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Innovation in Action: Highlights from our Award Winners
In September, six winners of the FEA Innovation Award embarked on their part-time incubator journey to develop and test their innovations. Having completed this transformative phase, they are now dedicating themselves full-time to their initiatives and focusing on financial sustainability, communications, and building a robust team.
Thanking Dame Julia
Thanking Dame Julia Cleverdon DCVO, CBE who has stepped down as our Trustee to take up her new role as Chair of The National Lottery Community Fund.
Leading the Future: Our Strategy Refresh
Our Director of Operations and Impact shares her insight into the journey to and the process behind the Fair Education Alliance’s strategy refresh.
Game changing: Systems and place-based change
Jacquie Bance de Vasquez from Magic Breakfast shares her views on the recent Systems and Place-Based Change workshops held by the Fair Education Alliance.
Response to Government AI Action Plan
The Fair Education Alliance’s response to the Government AI Action Plan and what we need to consider when incorporating AI developments within education.
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Second Reading Briefing
The Our Wellbeing, Our Voice Coalition welcomes the bill - but it doesn’t go far enough. Download the full Second Reading Briefing here.
Our Team’s 2024 Highlights
As 2024 draws to a close, we took one last chance to reflect on the past year and asked our team to share their highlights.
Fair Education Alliance Submission to the Public Accounts Committee
Improving Educational Outcomes for Disadvantaged Children.
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Our response
Our response, together with #BeeWell, The Children’s Society and Pro Bono Economics.
Early Years Pupil Premium Increased
We're delighted that the Government has announced an increase to the Early Years Pupil Premium – a longstanding ask of our Alliance. Read on for our full response.
The Government’s Plan For Change: Our Response
What does the Prime Ministers’s speech mean for early years education? Will the latest commitments help tackle educational inequity?
Learning from a decade of collective impact
As we have grown to almost 300 members across this decade, we have remained committed to our values of learning and honesty. In this blog, we share are our reflections on how our beliefs have evolved and what we have learned about our role.
Curriculum and Assessment Review: Working together on our joint submission
Reflecting on the process of developing our joint submission to the Curriculum and Assessment Review.
We’re updating our website
Improvements to our website are on the way, but you won’t see any ‘big bang’ launch moments here. Find out why we’re taking an iterative approach to our website refresh.
Autumn Budget response
We were pleased to see the Chancellor make a substantial investment in education in the Autumn Budget. We’d love to see this and subsequent budgets funding changes in teacher recruitment and retention, SEND, early education and childcare, and skills and post-16 education.
Conservative Party Conference 2024: Spotlight on education
This year we’re attending the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative Party conferences. In this blog Jane Fernandes, Collective Action and Advocacy Manager, reflects on her experience of the 2024 Conservative Party Conference.