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In Britain’s schools today, there are an estimated 19,000 children under 15 years old who have disfigurements – easy targets for teasing, bullying and ostracism. Changing Faces’ aims to ensure that no child fails in school through a lack of understanding and support for the problems having a disfigurement can lead to and we aspire to expand our Education team to include a Policy Adviser and a Training Adviser.

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  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)

    Situation

    Education services are developing behaviour and anti-bullying policies, more joined-up practice around special needs, and improved ‘citizenship’ curricula but these have yet to make disfigurement a familiar issue that teachers and schools know how to deal with. Changing Faces’ receives reports from parents and teachers indicating that the education system is not alert or trained to deal with ‘appearance differences’, often preferring to ignore or make light of them. We currently employ a School Specialist who works one-to-one with children and young people experiencing difficulties at school on account of having a disfigurement. We now want to fund a full-time Training Adviser who will take forward the lessons learned from this work, developing resources and providing training to tackle whole-school issues. In addition, we seek to appoint a Policy Adviser who will get involved at local, regional and national level to advocate for inclusive curricula and policies that foster ‘face equality’. To appointment 2 experienced educationalists we require a total of £77,000 pa to cover salaries, NI, pension and on-costs. Full details available on request.

    Solution

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    Categories

  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)