“Square pegs, round holes” with Ellie Costello

12/09/2025 20 min Temporada 1 Episodio 8

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In this episode of Talking Inclusion, Geoff Barton talks with Ellie Costello, executive director of Square Peg, an organisation representing families of children who struggle to access or remain in education. Reflecting in part on her lived parental experience of what inclusion does and doesn’t feel like for too many young people.They discuss why the current system too often fails young people who don’t 'fit' the model of mainstream schooling, and the urgent need for an education system that builds equity in by design, not as an add-on.

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