Safeguarding Network

This week a little boy said he’d seen me on the news and he thinks I might have got him and his sister, ‘the best beds in the world.’ I said, ‘That’s a very nice thing to hear you say.’ He said, ‘It was a very nice thing for you and Zarach to do’. 🥰 I’ve been qualified for 17 years. Data and personal experience shows that the number of children sat in classrooms who regularly do not have their basic needs met, is higher than ever. This is not okay. I will not stop talking about this. Research shows the most accurate predictor of academic success is household income. If your household has an equivalent annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, you are classed by the DfE as ‘disadvantaged’. Lots of schools including mine work so hard to try and plug gaps in resources, vocabulary and cultural capital. I’m paid to relentlessly try and close the disadvantage gap ensuring every child who attends my school meets their full potential in the widest sense. In my spare time, I’ve been relentless in the pursuit of ending bed poverty. At first it felt like nobody believed it was an issue. Now we’ve delivered 10k beds, maybe those in power will begin to listen. I’m meeting a couple of Labour MPs on Friday. The message is simple. Our children deserve beds. Our Christmas appeal last year saw over 500 children receive a bed. This year we’d love to double that. Our bed deliveries always bring joy but it definitely hits different at Christmas. This photo was sent to me by a mum we delivered to on Christmas Eve. She said we made her feel like a proper mum again 💔. If you’d like to support us lifting 1000 children out of bed poverty in December please consider one of the following: ❤️Share this post with your network. We’ve delivered 10,000 beds from what started as a handful of shares. Shares have led to so many of our biggest moments. ❤️❤️ Have a Zarach Christmas at work. Find out how your work selects who they support at Christmas and consider putting us forward. ❤️❤️❤️Buy a bed. Put lifting a child out of bed poverty on your Christmas list by either pledging £12.50 a month for a year, or making a one off donation of £150 ensuring we meet our 1000 bed quota by Christmas Day. ❤️💛💙 Much love, Bex https://lnkd.in/eZRYYsnS to give to our match funded Christmas appeal. Zarach.org/donate for all other giving Zarach to connect with our team

Meet our Safeguarding Team: Ben, our Designated Safeguarding Lead, and Hannah and Essi the Deputies. We are all very pleased with our new planner from the Safeguarding Network and all the amazing resources that come with it!