Lunchtime webinar series: Improving educational outcomes for children known to social care: evidence, impact and policy
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Children who are known to social care can experience school negatively, and many do not meet the expected attainment levels for education nationally. However, the experience of care or a social worker is complex, with placements, timings, school-experiences all relating to later educational outcomes. Drawing on linked data from Wales, Emily will discuss how aspects of timing, duration and stability can relate to care-experienced children’s education, along with discussing the emerging landscape of the educational outcomes of children with a social worker. She will address how Welsh policy is addressing disparities within attainment and school experiences (such as exclusions), and what the current challenges are. Lastly, she will discuss her pilot and feasibility project in developing a national e-Platform for trainee teachers in supporting children known to social care.
The speaker will be presenting in-person at the Department of Education.
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Dr Emily Lowthian is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Childhood Studies at Swansea University. Her research examines children’s educational outcomes, health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on care-experienced children and those supported by social services. She uses linked administrative data to explore how children’s care histories and school experiences relate to educational progress. Her recent work also considers the virtual school model in Wales and improving teacher preparation to support children known to social care.
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