Ex Curricula is the final report of a year-long Demos research project on children and young people’s disengagement from education.

The work was funded by the Private Equity Foundation.

The report is based on research including...

  • desk-based literature review;
  • conversations with charities and organisations working with children and young people on the issues covered in this paper;
  • a panel of practitioners working with children and young people who discussed with us the symptoms and causes of educational disengagement;
  • quantitative analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study;
  • qualitative research with 75 young people at risk of disengagement in schools and PRUs undertaken in association with the charity BeatBullying; and
  • a roundtable with headteachers from the National Association of Head Teachers.
Read more and or download the publication at http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Ex-curricula_-_web.pdf?1267034385.