Ambition Institute is a national education charity, helping schools tackle educational disadvantage and helping their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time. They do this by training teachers and leaders at all levels, sharing what works by connecting people to the latest research and best practice, and championing every teacher’s potential to develop.

Anna Freud is a mental health charity for children and families. They work to close the gap in wellbeing and mental health by advancing, translating, delivering and sharing the best science and practice with everyone who impacts the lives of children and families. They work with those who work and support children and young people directly, including families, teachers, social workers and mental health professionals

Aspire Schools does things differently. They offer transformative Alternative Provision and SEMH education for secondary school aged pupils. Their work is underpinned by their core principles of safe-love-learn – ensuring that pupils feel secure and valued and ready to fulfil their potential. As a multi-academy trust, their impact is far and wide, spanning across six school sites throughout Buckinghamshire rated “outstanding” by Ofsted. Beyond the classroom, they provide home tuition, outreach and hospital teaching services. They work matters. They change lives.

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) is an independent think-tank that studies the root causes of Britain’s social problems and addresses them by recommending practical, workable policy interventions. The CSJ engages in research and political advocacy to improve policy around school exclusions and alternative provision. As the “hub” organisation for IntegratED, the CSJ disseminates the programme’s findings, as well as conducting original research.

Coram is the first and longest serving children’s charity in the UK. Established as the Foundling Hospital in 1739, today they are a vibrant charity group of specialist organisations – the Coram Group – supporting hundreds of thousands of children, young people and families every year. They do this by championing children's rights and wellbeing and making their lives better every day through our range of services. Coram run a school exclusions hub, offering free information and resources for professionals and community organisations supporting children and their families in challenging school exclusions.

Through its programmes, research and partnerships, The Difference learns what works to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, and shares this best practice across its network and the sector. The Difference creates specialist senior school leaders, with the expertise to lead whole-school and multi-agency approaches to meeting the learning, wellbeing and safeguarding needs of all children, and most crucially those with high levels of need and vulnerability.

FFT Education Datalab are a group of expert analysts who produce independent, cutting-edge research on education policy and practice. They conduct research for policy-makers to help them understand the education landscape. They carry out quantitative research on the education system in England primarily using the National Pupil Database and other national datasets linked to it.

The Education Policy Institute is an independent, impartial and evidence-based research institute that aims to promote high quality education outcomes for all children and young people, regardless of social background. Their research and analysis aims to shed light on whether current policy is delivering a high quality, equitable, education system, and identifies issues where further policy development is needed.

The Fair Education Alliance (FEA) is a coalition of nearly 300 of England’s leading organisations from business, the third sector and education, all working towards a world where our education system is fair – where no child’s educational success is limited by their socioeconomic background. The FEA Secretariat unites its members to drive collective action, influence policy and scale impactful initiatives to create an education system that builds essential life skills, prioritises wellbeing, supports teachers and leaders, engages parents and communities, and provides support for all post-16 routes.

Impetus transforms the lives of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds by ensuring they get the right support to succeed in school, in work and in life. Together with the Henry Smith Charity, they’re backing charities that provide targeted support to those at risk of exclusion from school or in Alternative Provision, building on the evidence of what works to support and grow impactful programmes that will set more young people on a path to success.

Inspiration Trust, a family of schools in East Anglia, are piloting a model that integrates alternative provision into our mainstream provision, keeping children on the school roll and with an approach that ensures pupils are still part of the school community. Their alternative curriculum will include social and emotional interventions as well as an academic curriculum, largely delivered by mainstream teachers to enable the children to gradually re-join their mainstream peers in a supported transition process.

IntoUniversity’s Holistic Aspirations project in Leeds, run in partnership with Leeds East Academy and the Co-operative Academy of Leeds, works with students aged 11-16 who are at high risk of exclusion and meet our eligibility criteria, including being eligible for free school meals. Delivering a targeted version of their programme, they aim to increase students’ attachment to longer term goals and increase their school engagement, thereby avoiding a range of negative outcomes such as exclusions.

IPPR is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society. They are researchers, communicators, and policy experts creating tangible progressive change, and turning bold ideas into common sense realities. Working across the UK, IPPR, IPPR North, and IPPR Scotland, and through their pioneering participative research, they are deeply connected to the people of our nations and regions, and the issues communities face. They have helped shape national conversations and progressive policy change for more than 30 years. More recently in education, they have worked across the sector with organisations such as Big Change, The Difference, Impetus and Mission44. IPPR is also a leading organisation aiming to improve outcomes for early years and health and wellbeing of young people and has successfully contributed to childcare reform across the nation.

We work with others to improve the lives of the most vulnerable children and young people in the UK, by investing in partners and programmes for children in their early years, in school and through adolescence, wherever, whenever and however the greatest benefits can be achieved. The Foundation is proud to support the Anna Freud Centre’s work on reducing school exclusions through a whole family approach, in collaboration with Porticus and the IntegratEd initiative.

Launched by Seven Time Formula One World Champion Sir Lewis Hamilton in 2021, Mission 44 is a charity that is working to
build a fairer, more inclusive future for young people around the world. The charity invests in solutions that empower young
people to overcome social justice and succeed. It has a particular focus on developing an inclusive education system,
creating employment opportunities in STEM and motorsport, and empowering young people to shape the world they live in.

Porticus is the philanthropic organisation supporting the IntegratED programme. We believe the most effective way to educate children, especially those in extreme adversity, is to embed a holistic whole-child development approach within education systems. The programme vision is that all children, irrespective of family income or background, should have fair opportunities to develop as socially responsible, fulfilled individuals with a strong academic grounding, able to contribute to and benefit from a just society.

Pro Bono Economics uses economic analysis and the unique insight provided by our connection to the social sector to help charities, funders, firms and policymakers to collectively tackle the causes and consequences of low personal wellbeing in the UK. Pro Bono Economics are working with social sector organisations to help them evaluate the economic impact of their work with young people at risk of exclusion, with a particular focus on valuing improvements in young people’s wellbeing. They are also collaborating with organisations across the sector to call for the introduction of universal wellbeing measurement for children and young people.

Relationships Foundation believes that good relationships are fundamental to achieving a broad range of social and educational outcomes. As part of the IntegratED programme, they are measuring and exploring relationships in a range of alternative provision settings to understand how factors like closeness and trust support high performance. Relationships Foundation are also seeking to identify what it is that enables good relationships within settings and in the wider system, to support sustainable improvement.

Right to Succeed support communities in areas of high deprivation to work collectively to give children and young people the best start in life. Their IntegratED pilot programme worked with every child in the first three years of secondary school in Blackpool to close the literacy gap, giving pupils the ability to engage better with the curriculum and improving their ability to communicate with those around them. It sought also to understand the impact of literacy, language and communication on children’s whole development, looking particularly at attitudes to self and school as well as attendance and exclusion.

The RSA is where world-leading ideas are turned into world-changing actions. Their vision is a world where everyone can fulfil their potential and contribute to more resilient, rebalanced and regenerative futures.

Providing opportunities for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged young people in our communities is the driving force behind The Wates Family Enterprise Trust's work in one area of its funding. The Trust is passionate about providing support to those, who from a young age, could easily become lost in the system. They are keen to better understand how to support quality improvement in AP, aid pupils' post-16 transition, and want to ensure that we see a reduction in the number of those excluded or missing from school.

Social Finance is working in partnership with two local authorities, Cheshire West and Chester County Council and Gloucestershire County Council, to transform how they identify and support children at risk of exclusion. The programme will develop data insights on who is being excluded, explore what interventions and quality assurance are needed and understand how local systems should support this. Social Finance is a not-for-profit organisation that researches better ways of tackling social problems.

SHINE wants to see all children leave school with real choices in their future. They believe that children should be given the best possible chances in education, no matter what their backgrounds or starting points. Their mission is to raise the attainment of children from disadvantaged backgrounds across the North of England. They do this by supporting innovations in education which have the potential to transform education outcomes for the most disadvantaged children. SHINE is proud to support Right to Succeed in their work to close the attainment gap, alongside Porticus and the IntegratED initiative.

Teach First is seeking to embed the four main principles of whole-child development within its programmes. Whole-child development encompasses cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. They aim to raise awareness among teachers and school leaders of how these principles can benefit pupils in their schools. Through their programmes, they hope to equip teachers and school leaders better to respond to underlying factors that impact outcomes for pupils, particularly those facing educational disadvantage.

Whole Education is a network of leaders who share the vision that everyone should thrive in a transforming world. They believe that when people connect around a shared purpose amazing things begin to happen. In all of the work that they do, they seek to grow and deepen the connections between leaders across schools, local authorities and trusts who believe in the power of a whole education.

WILD Learning exists to help people create the conditions for sustained behaviour change. They begin by guiding people to reflect inwards, understanding how they typically learn, then planning outwards developing their learning power and thinking skills to achieve a purpose that matters to them. This is as important for teachers and carers as it is for the young people they look after. They use a research validated Learning Power self-assessment tool and learning analytics via our WILD App to support end-to-end learning journeys. The overall outcomes of an effective learning journey are the distinctively human intelligences of self-leadership, learning relationships and thinking skills for complex problem solving.