Who we are
We are Hackney REP, a partnership of local organisations working together to strengthen our communities by ensuring young people can access an education that meets their needs and helps them develop into the best they can be.
School exclusions are disproportionately prevalent in our community - they prevent young people from accessing education and have major negative impacts on young peoples mental health, wellbeing and ability to succeed.
Through advocacy support, mentoring and campaigns to influence change, Hackney REP is supporting young people to access to the education they deserve by preventing harmful school exclusions and identifiying and addressing their needs to help them achieve the successes they deserve.
We are empowering young people to become leaders of change within the education system through supporting them to develop youth council in their schools.
We utilise a partnership of organisations who are pillars of the comunity - widely trusted and respected by young people and families to schools, local councils and nationwide stakeholders alike.
Our issue? School exclusions impact on young people
What we do
Support for young people and families
Support for young people and families
Support for young people and families
Accessible through our many partners who are embedded in local schools and the community, young people and families can access advocacy support around exclusions and participating in school.
Hackney REP partners provide expert, holistic and nuanced advocacy support to young people and caregivers to support them to identify needs and under
Accessible through our many partners who are embedded in local schools and the community, young people and families can access advocacy support around exclusions and participating in school.
Hackney REP partners provide expert, holistic and nuanced advocacy support to young people and caregivers to support them to identify needs and understand legal rights around education to enable young people to access education according to their needs and rights.
This advocacy focuses on ensuring young people and families know their rights and enables families to support themselves.
Advocacy is essential for young people and parents navigating school behaviour policies and procedures. It is essential in
preventing the traumatisation and adverse mental health impacts that school behaviour addressing can have on young people and their families.
Hackney REP works with the young person, their support structure/family, local community, education partners, all care providers to identify needs and find solutions to the challenges preventing them for
accessing education.
Research
Support for young people and families
Support for young people and families
Hackney REP is continuously researching to build an evidence based on the wider determinants of
school exclusions, impacts on experiences of young people, their families and community. This evidence
supports our campaign and influence projects to inform and improve policy and practice locally.
Hackney REP has many partnerships to strengthen
Hackney REP is continuously researching to build an evidence based on the wider determinants of
school exclusions, impacts on experiences of young people, their families and community. This evidence
supports our campaign and influence projects to inform and improve policy and practice locally.
Hackney REP has many partnerships to strengthen our research such as East London University, Hackney
Education, Just for Kids Law and independent researcher on school exclusions in Hackney, Luke
Bellingham.
Campaign and Influence
Support for young people and families
Campaign and Influence
Hackney REP campaigns and influences (using local research and evidence) by working with schools to
create a Hackney where schools provide person centred, culturally safe holistic psycho-social-emotional
support to young people that supports them to participate in and access education according to their
rights and needs.
Current campaign focu
Hackney REP campaigns and influences (using local research and evidence) by working with schools to
create a Hackney where schools provide person centred, culturally safe holistic psycho-social-emotional
support to young people that supports them to participate in and access education according to their
rights and needs.
Current campaign focuses include challenging the playground ban schools impose on young people,
reviewing behaviour policies, ensuring schools have an anti-racism policy and cultural safety training for
teachers.
Our Partners
Our funders
