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Key Voices #145 - How to make schools safer spaces for LGBTQ+ pupils
Recently published research* highlighted that school pupils who identify as LGBTQ+ have lower feelings of safety than those who identify as heterosexual. What can school and trust leaders do to change this?
This is the question we explored in a recent webinar, which you can now listen to in this podcast. Our guests were Evie Cryer, LGBTQ+ advocate for staff and pupils across the Oasis Community Learning trust, and Jo Brassington, educator, author and co-founder of the Pride & Progress podcast.
We talk about:
Evie and Jo’s roles and how they influence and support schools to become safer spaces for all pupils
Practical advice and strategies to help school and trust leaders reflect on their own safeguarding provision
How schools and trusts can equip their staff to support pupils who identify as LGBTQ+
… and much more
You’ll find Jo’s podcast and links to more resources that Jo mentions, here.
If you’re a member of The Key, you can use our resources to help you make school a safe space for all pupils, including our gender and LGBTQ+ inclusivity whole school and curriculum audits.
*The Pupil Safeguarding Review, published in January 2023 by Edurio and The Key, highlighted that among school pupils in years 9 to 13, children who identified as LGBTQ+ typically had lower feelings of safety than those who identified as heterosexual. View the reports here.
10 Feb 2022
Key Voices #144 - Leading a trust through a cyber attack and reflections on the role of the CEO with Sir Dan Moynihan
This week we talk to Sir Dan Moynihan, CEO of the Harris Federation about leading the trust through a major cyber attack last year. We also talk about some of the systems that underpin the Harris Federation’s school improvement and efficiency models, as well as hearing Sir Dan’s reflection on the role of the CEO.
We talk about:
How the cyber attack happen and how the story unfolded including how they got support to negotiate with the hackers
How prevalent such attacks are and how all schools should assume they will be targeted
The challenges the team at Harris faced and the support they got to recover including how the precautions they had taken had allowed them to open safely with all IT systems down
Sir Dan’s own experience of being in charge during such a difficult time
Additional steps the trust is taking to protect itself in future
How Harris uses a team of subject specialists to support school improvement on the ground as part of its turnaround process
How they have managed to find efficiencies through centralisation and simplification
The need to retain agility even as the organisation becomes larger and the importance of feedback from the schools about the central services they provide.
The role the CEO has in constantly articulating the vision and mission of the organisation, recruiting talent, enabling action and dealing with difficult problems
You can get more detail about The Harris Federation’s experience of a cyber attack here.
You can learn more about The Harris Federation here.
3 Feb 2022
Key Voices #143 - Inclusive leadership with The Difference
This week we talk to Shaun Brown, Programmes Director at The Difference and Mohamed Abdallah, Head of The Difference Inclusive Leadership Course about their pioneering inclusive leadership training. We discuss the theory that underpins the learning and how to overcome some of the barriers schools can face when being truly inclusive in their approach.
We talk about:
Mohamed and Shaun’s experiences in mainstream and alternative provision
What The Difference does as an organisation
Why the inclusive leadership course exists and how it is different from other training available
The theory that underpins the course and an understanding that all pupils have wellbeing, learning and safeguarding needs
How behaviour practice and behaviour systems should ideally fit together and align
Some of the ways in which participants have implemented strategies from the course and the impact it has had on their schools
How the pandemic may have provided an opportunity for schools to rethink their approach to behaviour and inclusion
You can find out more about The Difference here and the Inclusive Leadership Course here.
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