Ed Dorrell

Partner at Public First (education, levelling up and Labour). Quant, qual, political comms. Ex-journo. Occasional govt adviser.

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

Delighted with the big fat namecheck for my recent @progbrit piece on the legendary @steverichards14 podcast.

https://t.co/PTLwVKE0wG

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

With the exception of the slightly waffly education passages, this is actually rather good.

https://t.co/bv8lyaer0H

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

Modern British politics in one tweet

[Will @willglloyd]

Burnham: “send me to london to change the labour party”
Reform: “i’d love to sniff carol vorderman’s arse, also women can’t drive”
Greens: “farming is racist”

which message will resonate with makerfield’s voters?

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

The Tories haven't tabled a debate on education for the King's Speech. I wonder why?

Maybe they don't want to talk about all the things Labour are doing to give children growing up in our country the best start in life – so here's your reminder. 👇

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

Delighted to see some exclusive Public First polling in the Sunday Times this weekend. It points to Andy Burnham being the only viable leadership candidate if Labour wants to try to rebuild its '24 electoral coalition.

[Kris Rose-Peters @danny_rose_p]

Young people would never understand how midtable League 1 these three clubs were. Absolutely no chance of getting to the Championship. Burton, Wycombe, Exeter. That kind of vibe.

[Jon Severs @jon_severs]

Lucy has been at the centre of the sector - and trust politics and policy - for 22 years. Her influence should not be underestimated. A big departure at Ark but also for education.

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

@alistrathern Cheers Ali

[Alistair Strathern MP @alistrathern]

Ed is (as ever) spot on here.

For too long we’ve simply accepted an online world where children are exposed to risks and content we simply wouldn’t tolerate in any other sphere.

Glad the Government is starting to asset our agency in putting this rights but plenty more to do!

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

"How have we got ourselves into a situation in which it is normal for nine-year-olds to be seeing soft porn, conspiracy theories and hate crimes?"

Scribbled something fot @SchoolsWeek

https://t.co/Oenu03btTF

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

I do hope the King asks Trump to put the #snooker on

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

Get in

https://t.co/Ng5Pa0S4bx

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

@FraserNelson Fraser I would advise you to spend some time looking at the pedagogy being promoted by the independent sector. If you wanted a traditional education you'd be looking in the wrong place.

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

@HCFEprincipal At the @tes we used to track how the apprenticeship starts kept going back from the moment these reforms came into force. Incredible policy failure

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

An article that is so ignorant of education policy - and that contains so many staggering internal contradictions - it's almost impossible to know where to start

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

Working-class children will lose from Bridget Phillipson’s white paper – @kateferguson4 https://t.co/3zlNGeXS3D

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

So far it's been a pretty exemplary case from the DfE of how to handle a potentially thorny announcement:

- Lots of prior engagement with parent groups/MPs/media
- Experts on hand to provide answers
- Secretary of State fronting up lots of interviews

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

An unusually good op ed from a serving pm

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

Labour sees the value and worth in every single child.

The SEND reform we are setting out will see us improve support — not remove it.

We want to see every child achieve and thrive.

https://t.co/rfKyFrwjpP

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

Brilliant report

[Policy Exchange @Policy_Exchange]

In just 6 years, local authority spending on SEND provision has increased 58.5% in real terms – equivalent to over £5 billion in additional spending.

Urgent reform is needed to put SEND spending on a sustainable footing.

Read more👇 🧵

[Jon Severs @jon_severs]

Increasingly being submitted AI-written articles. Even the worst human writing has an abundance of signals about the writer in the choices they make. AI-written pieces give no signals and that is deeply weird to read. Some common features include...

[Department for Education @educationgovuk]

Internal suspensions are a good option to keep children in school, learning and off social media.

But head teachers will always have the discretion to remove pupils from school when they need to. Read more here: https://t.co/KtsZv6ucX5

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Very happy to report that:

1. There are *no* plans to make internal suspensions the default, by law or guidance. They plan is that they will become an *option*, where students need to be suspended but sending them home would expose them to unacceptable risk, abuse etc.
2. Heads still decide when to do this. It will likely be a very small % of circumstances.
3. Suspensions are a vital part of a school’s repertoire of strategies to use in order to keep schools safe and calm. They’re not a failure; they’re a tactic that must be used when necessary.

I’m not sure why this is being reported, but it’s not accurate.

Lots of great schools already use a variety of forms of internal inclusion units to keep kids in school for short periods but away from the environment/ peers they’ve disrupted, with an aim to work with the kids towards reintegration. It’s a brilliant strategy that already works really well. It’s an intervention used with the aspiration to reduce the need to suspend in the future. We should be learning from these schools.

To be clear: schools must suspend externally when they need to, and that power resides with the school leader.