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South East London claims highest school exclusion rates in London

SE Londoner - May 2025

Emily Parsons

The exclusion figures, however, don’t quite capture the full extent of the issue, pointed out Educational Psychologist Chris Bagley

Labour’s accountability solutions are just more of the same

Schoolsweek - April 2024

The party’s proposals do little to challenge the surveillance culture that’s at the root of many of the sector’s problems

Plans to Slash Arts Subsidies Expose a Contradiction in Government Policy

Byline Times - May 2021

A proposed 50% cut of subsidies for arts courses risks excluding poorer students from the creative industries and represents an ongoing hostile takeover of education.

Alternative Education Provision: An Exclusive English Myth

Byline Times - February 2021

Chris Bagley, an educational psychologist specialising in youth justice, explains how children are being failed by school exclusions

As an educational psychologist, these are the tools parents and teachers really need now that schools are closed

The Independent - March 2020

Closures took place a week ago where I live, but staff, young people and parents are working together. Through collaboration and creativity, it is possible to emerge from this crisis stronger

How Technology Is Changing Society and Manipulating Our Children

Psychreg - May 2020

We are seeing the rapid, international, commodification of human beings, both in consumer and political terms. A few powerful people in a tiny number of tech companies have the capacity to activate our unconscious biases and shape our sense of who we are.

Breaking the silence: children’s voices and Ofsted

edpsy.org.uk - May 2019

The project was launched in January 2019 with States of Mind, a charity that seeks to empower young people to play an active role in designing more psychologically healthy schools and communities.

Breaking the Silence

The Psychologist - November 2024

Jaspar Khawaja and Chris Bagley with a different way to work alongside young people in practice and research.

Inspecting the inspectors: students assess Ofsted regime’s toll on wellbeing

The Guardian - June 2022

Fiona Millar

Sixth-formers propose alternatives after showing how visits cause stress for pupils as well as teachers

Children Are Not Economic Commodities: The Manufactured Terror of Lost Learning

Byline Times - March 2021

The widespread panic about schooling during the pandemic reveals the rotten assumptions that underpin our education system

‘It’s about the layers of disadvantage these children face in school’

The Psychologist - June 2020

Dr Chris Bagley is an Educational Psychologist, and former teacher, based in South London schools. We heard from him about school exclusion and race.

Stop discarding troubled students who don't perform - it's destroying children's lives

The Independent - March 2020

The government’s plan to expand alternative provision will only encourage unscrupulous schools to cleanse classes of underperforming students

It’s the Era of Psychiatric Diagnosis – We Need to Change the Questions We’re Asking

Psychreg - May 2019

How did we get here? What is the impact of diagnosis on families?

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Testing is damaging our mental health, pupils tell Ofsted

TES - April 2019

Young people tell Ofsted that testing is causing ‘panic attacks, feelings of anxiety, stress and sadly, a loss of interest in learning