Pledge: Prioritise Children & Young People in the UK's Next Political Cycle

Please sign our petition if you share our vision for building a better UK that invests in its future (the next generation of children and young people).

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A country that works for all children and young people: An evidence-based plan for addressing poverty with and through education settings

Read the report that CAER researchers collaborated on which highlight experiences of CYP living in poverty, showing change is possible, & influencing decision-making for system-wide change, for a better UK for all CYP.

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Child Health Outcomes Research at Leeds (CHORAL) has now launched!

An inspiring launch towards a whole system connected approach for better child health outcomes.

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Education Alliance for Life Chances (EALC)

CAER is working with the Education Alliance for Life Chances (EALC), a multi-service partnership, to bring evidence and research into education settings.

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The Centre for Applied Education Research (CAER) is committed to improving educational outcomes for children and young people (CYP) through the power of science.

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Our Vision : CAER seeks to empower educational settings (schools, nurseries, early year providers) to use evidence-based approaches to identify and remove all barriers to learning.

Our Mission : CAER seeks to realise its vision through the creation of a ‘community of practice’ throughout the UK.

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Our Methodology

All CAER research follows an 'education translation pipeline' to ensure that promising scientific research is translated rapidly but safely into policy, identifying important contextual factors for effective implementation, and allowing the best possible evidence to underpin decision making.

Fundamental Research

Core Science

Fundamental Research

Discovery and Design

Translate

Trials and Assessment

Implement

Large Randomised Controlled Trial

Scale-up

Regional Rollout

National

Evidence-based Policy

Evidence-based Practice

Our eight themes of work were developed on the basis of the evidence and insights provided by teachers and schools to the Royal Society and British Academy in a series of focus group sessions published in 2017.

Our themes and place-based working ensures that we have evidence at the heart of our whole system approach to tackling structural inequalities and supporting children and young people from 0-25 years of age in partnership with communities and educational organisations.

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Living Well Schools

Find out about the Living Well Schools offer on transforming the health and wellbeing of pupils.

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Evidence Active Schools

Find out more about our work on upskilling school staff to engage with research and evidence.

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Webinars

Find out about the Living Well Schools offer on transforming the health and wellbeing of pupils

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Healthy Minds

Find out about our School Staff Welfare Scheme.

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