#028 – Dr Sam Baars and Iesha Small: Research roundup

In this episode, Sam and Iesha talk through three pieces of research that hold particular interest for them:

• Capturing the Voices of Children in the Education Health and Care Plans: Are We There Yet? (published April 2018) Olympia Palikara, Susana Castro, Carolina Gaona and Vasiliki Eirinaki (School of Education, University of Roehampton)
• Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017 (published November 2018) NHS
• Depression of Key Stage 1 assessments in primary schools, FFT Education Datalab

In this episode Sam and Iesha:

• Talk about what interested them about these particular pieces of research
• Discuss the new SEND framework introduced in 2014
• Look at how children’s perspectives have been included
• Explore the variability in the ‘quality’ of the methods used to capture children’s views
• Shared their ethical reservations around the consent sought from participants
• Talked about mental illness and behavioural disorder rates in young people
• Identify mental illness as being much worse amongst LGBT teenagers
• Explain that one piece looked at pre-school children’s mental illness rates for the first time
• Identify the strong link between poverty and poor mental health
• Look at where the gaps are between ethnic groups and boys and girls’ mental health
• Talk about the difficulty in comparing performance data of infant schools and primary schools because KS1 and KS2 results are systematically different
• Look at what happened when KS1 assessment switched from externally marked tests to teacher assessment

Resources/people featured or mentioned:

• Bart Shaw
• LKMco Youth and education podcast 027 School Cultures and Practices
• Capturing the Voices of Children in the Education Health and Care Plans: Are We There Yet? (published April 2018) Olympia Palikara, Susana Castro, Carolina Gaona and Vasiliki Eirinaki (School of Education, University of Roehampton)
• Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017 (published November 2018) NHS
• BBC summary of the above report here
• Depression of Key Stage 1 assessments in primary schools, FFT Education Datalab

Clarification re the end of KS2 tests (TA assessed of not?)

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743131/KS2_Provisional_publication_2018-Text.pdf

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