Over the last year, Public First have been working with the Coalition for Youth Mental Health in Schools to develop an updated picture of how children's mental health and wellbeing has changed since the pandemic. Today, our report is published in full. www.publicfirst.co.uk/green-roots-...

Public First's education team are hiring a summer intern! If you're a student or recent graduate with an interest in how good education policy gets made, we'd love to hear from you. Details here: www.publicfirst.co.uk/pf-internshi...

Some really cool new polling insights into geographical and Ofsted-rating discrepancies in teachers' expectations of school leavers. Read all about it and more in our new 'WP state of the nation' piece with the UPP Foundation: upp-foundation.org/wp-content/u...

Public First’s landmark study on conspiracies and disinformation in classrooms and among young people (led by @eddorrell.bsky.social and @sallyburtonshaw.bsky.social) publishes today after a year’s work. Rather timely really.

Love this story: vicar tells primary school pupils that Father Christmas isn’t real, their parents give them the presents in engagingly ill-judged sermon at school.

Facing a Friday full of teenagers talking total rot? Have a read of John Jerrim on bullshitters: www.iza.org/publications... (h/t @petewhitehead.bsky.social)

Have picked up a bunch of new followers on here, which is fun. For some ideas of the stuff I'm interested in/have written about, head here: willyateswriting.wordpress.com

Excited to be publishing a major piece of teacher, parent and student opinion research on the ever-challenging subject of exclusions. Thanks to the support of @mission44, we were able to carry out what was, I think, the ever biggest exercise of its kind on this subject. 1/10

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... we're about five years from an Armando Iannucci tour de force based on the Captain Tom story

Found this very interesting and touching: www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

My dad grew up on his dad's farm, and his cousins are farmers, but they're not lining up behind Clarkson today. As my colleague Tim points out here, the changes to farm inheritance being protested today could end up being a boon to farmers. timleunig.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...

Experiencing the Xodus vs starting on Bluesky (London XC Champs, Parliament Hill, 16.11.24)