Project Up
Our new project Unveiling Perspectives focuses on providing free assessments of needs for Black children and young people with unidentified or unmet needs. Simultaneously, we’re documenting the lived experiences of the families throughout their SEND journey.
What is Project UP?
We’ve been fortunate to have received funding from the Baobab Foundation for free assessments for Black families up to 2028.
Through our advocacy work, we recognised a significant gap between Black children not having their needs identified or met, and often being routinely excluded from school.
The assessments aim to identify any special educational needs and provide recommendations. These detailed assessment reports can then be used by parents in a variety of ways to apply for an Education, Health and Care plan or share with the school to demonstrate their child’s special educational needs and disabilities. To register your expression of interest please complete our form here and we’ll be in touch!
As a result of the assessment we want:
Families to be confident in recognising and understanding their child or young person’s difficulties.
To ensure they have the knowledge required to advocate fully for their child or young person.
To ensure that every SEND Black child or young person has a positive, aspirational, and thriving education.
Please note these are not diagnostic assessments.
What is the criteria?
Be Black
Be between the ages of 5 and 25
Live outside of London and Greater London
Advance knowledge – Push the boundaries of what we know, uncovering new facts, theories, and principles.
Influence Policy – Identify and solve problems, whether they’re practical issues or complex challenges. Studying problems systematically can develop effective solutions.
Innovate – Provide the foundation for developing new products, services, and processes that can improve people’s lives and contribute to growth.
Improve practice – Providing evidence-based insights helps to make informed decisions and improve the quality of work.
Addressing societal change – By studying these insights and developing evidence-based solutions, we can contribute to positive social change.
We really hope you’re able to get involved and shape the way Black children receive the support they need in education.
The history of racism and education in the UK, clearly demonstrates that all meaningful advances in race and education equality have come about as a result of community action (Gillborn 2008; Ramdin 1987; Tomlinson 2008).
