Today Routledge published Young People on the Margins, my edited collection with Loic Menzies. It’s been four years in the making, and represents The CfEY’s manifesto for action in youth and education.
The book features chapters from the whole CfEY team, setting out how key groups of young people are marginalised by the system and what we can do about it. My own chapter is on area-based inequalities and the new frontiers in education policy. Here’s a short presentation I gave at the book launch, which provides an overview of the chapter and the research journey behind it:
The book has four key themes which provide a common thread through each chapter:
- end child poverty
- strengthen ‘other services’ around schools
- support young people before they reach the extremes
- pause and listen to young people, whenever you get the chance