Restoring Education: Educators paving the way to radical change through relationship

‘As the adults in school, we have the chance to be the agents of genuine change.It’s essential we stop ‘doing school’ as we’ve always done, creating one-size-fits-all, trauma-inducing systems instead of intentionally increasing safety for all.Let’s not have pupils and teachers apprehensive about being in school; let’s have remaining steady and connected as our priorities ...Fundamentally, let’s honour the need for all our pupils to be educated in school together through attuned relationships and understanding.’ Louise Michelle BombèrThis is the radical challenge from Louise Michelle Bombèr, founder of the UK’s leading specialist trauma service in schools, TouchBase, in her timely new book, Restoring Education.Stories of the huge range of difficulties schools face are rarely positive, with increasing rates of pupil mental health problems, and children unable to settle to learn.Teachers’ stress has soared, many leaving the profession they love.The most vulnerable pupils, already struggli