Learning from Factors That Make for a Successful Childhood: Why the Design and Organization of Our Schools Needs to Change

Former secondary school headteacher, is a Visiting Fellow at Bristol University Graduate School of Education and a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy at Dartington. Publications include: Holding Children in Mind over Time (2006), The Children Left Behind (for Channel 4 Dispatches: 2008), Urban Village Schools (2009), Is Initial Teacher Training Failing to Meet the Needs of All Our Young People?(2010), and Relationships - A Springboard for Learning (2011). He chairs the charity ‘The Green House Bristol’, which provides psychotherapy and counselling for children and adults affected by sexual abuse and trauma, and serves on the Members Forum of the National Children's Bureau. He is a co-founder of the Consortium for Emotional Wellbeing in Schools, which was launched at the Caspari Foundation in 2010. He has been recently appointed as the Director of Human Scale Education. Email: