Tackling Poverty and Disadvantage in Schools

Written by two people who walk the walk every day, this book pulls together real expertise from across the system to help us truly understand poverty and its effects, but most importantly offer us a host of practical ways schools can make things better. This is a book every teacher and leader should read. – Jonny Uttley * CEO, The Education Alliance Multi-Academy Trust, Visiting Fellow at The Centre for Young Lives, Co-author of Putting Staff First: A Blueprint to Revitalise Our Schools *The authors’ relentless determination to drive opportunities for all children shine through in this book, which is both inspiring and of huge practical value. This is an essential read. – Baroness Longfield * Executive Chair and Founder, Centre for Young Lives *

Sean Harris is the Trust Improvement and Research Lead for Tees Valley Education Trust. He is also the research lead and advocate for EdNorth, a doctoral researcher in Education at Teesside University and on the board of the North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership. Sean writes regularly for SchoolsWeek, SecEd, Headteacher Update and TES.

Katrina Morley is the CEO of Tees Valley Education Multi-Academy Trust. She has over 20 years of experience in the education sector in a range of leadership roles in a variety of establishments, all of which were graded by Ofsted as ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Good with Outstanding Features’. Katrina is also a non-executive director for Northern Power of Women, the Vice Chair of the SEND and AP group for Schools North East and a board member of SSAT National Primary Board.