The Schools White Paper & Inclusion at Scale
About This Event
The Schools White Paper Every Child Achieving and Thriving raises expectations for inclusion - earlier, more consistently, and across every school, backed by £1.8bn in new investment.
But for many trusts, the challenge isn’t understanding what’s expected. It’s making it work in practice, at scale.
Practice varies between schools. Capacity is stretched. Needs are more complex. What works in one school doesn’t always translate across others.
Research from Thrive and ImpactEd, based on over 1,000 education professionals, highlights a clear “inclusion readiness gap” - between expectations and the conditions needed to deliver them.
At the same time, £1.8bn in new investment creates a significant opportunity - but only if it’s used to strengthen delivery across the trust.
In this session, Tom Preston, Viv Trask-Hall and Liz Murray will share what they’re seeing across the system and what seems to be making a difference.
You’ll learn:
What the White Paper means in practice for trust-wide inclusion
Where delivery tends to break down across schools
Why some approaches don’t scale - and what to do instead
How to use new investment to build capacity across your trust
How to assess and strengthen inclusion readiness
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