This session will explore how schools approach building professional and stakeholder partnerships to identify and overcome barriers to a whole education for every learner. Based on evidence drawn from over 80 schools at various stages in the development of momentum. It will explore the logic behind working on inclusion and belonging through partnerships and offer specific case studies of powerful things Mats and schools are doing to make that goal a reality including Whole Education Mats and schools.

Professor Philippa Cordingley MA FCCT is the Chief Executive of CUREE and an internationally acknowledged expert in using evidence to develop education policy and practice.