Adam Steedman Thake

@thakeman.bsky.social

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Policy and Evidence Manager at AQA, former Civil Servant, and former-former primary teacher. Professionally focusing on SEND and Digital Literacy. Personally focusing on renovating my house and cricket. All views own etc.

Graphic showing responses to survey questions.
34% of 11-18 year-olds reported sharing their personal information with people they don’t know online.
Only 66% of young people felt 'confident spotting disinformation', compared to 81% of Teachers and 80% of Parents.

Panel discussion at the Social Market foundation event titled “Fixing SEND:What is possible?”
Chair Rebecca Montacute, SMF
Panel: Dani Payne SMF, Charlotte O’Reagan Sutton Trust, Cllr Anya Sizer Hackney Council, and Daniel Francis MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford.

Three books laid out on a desk. They are:
1. Education, Disability and Social Policy 2nd Edition, Edited by Steve Haines and David Ruebain, 2. Over-Diagnosed: Making people sick in the pursuit of health, by Dr H. Gilbert Welch, 3. Searching for Normal: A new approach to understanding mental health, distress and neurodiversity, by Sami Timimi.

Parliamentary question asked by Munira Wilson MP for Twickenham, Liberal Democrat, asking "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations of the AQA report entitled Towards new assessments for Numeracy, Literacy and Digital Fluency, published in October 2023."