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28 Jan 2025 08:45 - 16:30
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We know that economic disadvantage can have a huge impact on a child’s life chances. Education data shows that economically disadvantaged learners and those underserved in other ways often start school behind their more advantaged peers. They frequently make slower progress and have lower attainment outcomes at school and poorer opportunities for continued education once they have left school. Despite continuing efforts to close the disadvantage gap, a recent report from the EPI shows that the gap has widened over recent years.

We are committed to supporting schools across the county and beyond to close the attainment gap. This year’s disadvantage conference, with the title School: A place where I belong, aims to help you in creating a climate of inclusion where all students, and particularly disadvantaged and underserved learners, love and thrive at school.

We understand how little time you have to leave school to attend conferences and how tight your budgets are. With this in mind, our conference will be online to reduce the cost to you and recordings will be available for 30 days should you miss any of the sessions.

The themes of this conference are inclusion, belonging, better serving underserved learners, closing the Pupil Premium attainment gap and making school unmissable.

Tickets are available to purchase via the HFL Education Hub at a cost of £154+VAT with discounts for additional delegates from your school.

 

Programme

 

The HFL Education Disadvantage Conference programme
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Fatima Whitbread, MBE

World javelin champion, world record holder and twice Olympic medallist. She was honoured with the Helen Rollason Award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023, which recognises outstanding achievement in the face of adversity. She has recently launched a campaign called 'Fatima's UK Campaign', aimed at helping children in care and care leavers.

Catherine Gladwell

Founder of Refugee Education UK
Alongside her work at REUK, she is a director and research advisor for Jigsaw Education, here she specialises in international refugee education. Catherine consulted on refugee education work governments, UN agencies, and many charities and education institutions. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Winchester and an Honorary Associate Professor of Refugee Education at the University of Nottingham.

Lee Elliot Major, OBE

Professor of Social Mobility, University of Exeter
Britain’s first Professor of Social Mobility, at the University of Exeter. He was previously Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust. His book Equity in Education was ranked among Amazon’s 'Hot New Releases in Education'. Lee speaks across the world to education, government and business leaders. He is the first in his family to go to university.

Tier Blundell

Born on a council estate from a mixed-race relationship, Tier suffered racism and abuse at home, before being permanently excluded from school at the age of eleven. Later in life, he made a decision to turn things around and subsequently matriculated at the University of Oxford for a PhD.

Further information

Please contact the HFL Events team at events@hfleducation.org or call 01438 544477