Jean Gross CBE

Jean was formerly England’s Communication Champion for children. She has frequently acted in an advisory capacity to government on early years, wellbeing and special educational needs policy, including the language and self-regulation elements of Early Years Foundation Stage guidance .

She has been a teacher, an educational psychologist, head of children’s services in a local authority and a visiting or associate fellow at three universities . She the author of numerous articles and best-selling books on children’s issues and co-authored the Education Endowment Foundation/ Early Intervention Foundation guidance report Improving social and emotional learning in primary schools (2019).