The 2024 Fair Education Summit  

9 July 2024 | A&O Shearman, London 

Driving System Change Together 

What is the Fair Education Summit?  

Our Fair Education Summit is the single biggest gathering of leaders working to make education fairer in England. This year, the Fair Education Summit took place just days after the General Election. There’s never been a better time to gather, discuss how we can drive system change, and highlight our Fair Education Priorities for the new Government. 

Session videos

This is your chance to relive the 2024 Fair Education Summit, or catch up if you weren’t able to join us! Take your pick of the main sessions below, or head to our Youtube playlist.

Opening performance
Impact Dance

Session 1
Opening Plenary

Speakers include: Dr Vanessa Ogden CBE, Zulum Elumogo and members of our Youth Steering Group

Session 2
Driving System Change Together

A brave workshop framing the theme of the 2024 Fair Education Summit with our CEO, Gina Cicerone. We take a systemic view, looking at change through structural, relationship and value lenses.

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Session 3
System Change in Action

A panel to explore what the frameworks for system change look like on the ground, including practice, resources, and changing mental models.  

Speakers include: Paul Amuzie of Citizens UK, Fozia Irfan of Children in Need, Sean Harris of Tees Valley Education Trust, and Bronwyn Lee of Learning Creates Australia. The conversation will be chaired by Gina Cicerone .

Session 4
Fair Education 2024: Priorities for the New Government

The Fair Education Alliance, young people, and members launch Fair Education 2024: Priorities for the New Government. Just days after the General Election, there’s never been a better time to gather and discuss how we can drive system change together.  

Hear from our members: Mission 44, National Literacy Trust, Summit Learning Trust and The New School  

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Session 5
Nish Kumar and Coco Khan in Conversation with Young People

The hosts of the hit podcast ‘Pod Save the UK’ will hold a conversation with members of our Youth Steering Group, discussing the lived experience of students in the current education system and their hopes for the future. 

Session 6
Closing Plenary: What Next?

Fair Education Alliance team members Gina Cicerone and Daniel Rooney revisit our theme of system change and what we can do differently in our work as the product of our learnings throughout the day. 

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Closing Performance
Brick by Brick - Spoken Word by Angel

Through her poem “Brick by Brick”, Angel shared with us the challenges she and many others across England face in our current education system. She calls for us all to work together to build an education system where every young person can thrive - a core theme of our summit, driving systems change together - brick by brick.