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Character Education: Engaging the three key groups

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Continuing his series on character education, expert Matt Bawden reports from the Character Matters event and discusses how to grow support with three crucial groups – students, parents and the wider community

“Character is important – a CV may get you the interview, but character will get you the job #CharacterMatters2016.”
Tweet from British astronaut Tim Peake, January 21, 2016

Character matters. In fact character education matters. On Thursday, January 21, we had this roundly confirmed. I was fortunate to be in the audience at the Floreat School in Earlsfield, London, when both education secretary Nicky Morgan and children and families minister Edward Timpson assured us of this.

The event was branded Character Matters 2016, and much can be found on Twitter by searching via the hashtag above. It was quite a day with a variety of interesting speakers, and some excellent comments from “the floor”.

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