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Will Yates

@wjyates72.bsky.social
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Former English teacher and Public First education team, now DfE.

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Will Yates @wjyates72.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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-...
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Will Yates @wjyates72.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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...
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PF Internship Programme Summer 2025 - Public First
Public First’s education team is recruiting a paid intern for an eight-week period this summer (start date negotiable, ideally early July). Under the direction of [...]
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Will Yates @wjyates72.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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...
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Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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.
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Vicar’s Santa sermon ‘ruins Christmas’ for sobbing school pupils
The Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain has had to apologise for his Nativity talk that left teachers scrambling to ‘bring the magic back’
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Will Yates @wjyates72.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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)
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Bullshitters. Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives?
'Bullshitters' are individuals who claim knowledge or expertise in an area where they actually have little experience or skill. Despite this being a w...
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Will Yates @wjyates72.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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
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Will Yates Writing
Education, politics, resources
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Ed Dorrell @eddorrell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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
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Will Yates @wjyates72.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... we're about five years from an Armando Iannucci tour de force based on the Captain Tom story
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Captain Tom’s family personally benefited from charity they founded, report finds
Watchdog’s highly critical inquiry finds Hannah and Colin Ingram-Moore culpable of ‘serious and repeated’ misconduct
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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Found this very interesting and touching: www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
The long read: Doctors are pushing the limits of science and human biology to save more extremely premature babies than ever before. But when so few survive, are we putting them through needless suffe...
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Will Yates @wjyates72.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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...
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How to preserve the family farm
Tax breaks can harm those they purport to help
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Will Yates @wjyates72.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Experiencing the Xodus vs starting on Bluesky (London XC Champs, Parliament Hill, 16.11.24)
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