COVID-19 has stacked the odds further against children and families already experiencing vulnerability. Now more than ever, it is critical that appropriate supports are in place to minimise adverse impacts on learning and developmental outcomes.

Please join Social Ventures Australia as they share insights into programs that are tackling educational disadvantage from early years through year 12. Explore what we can do together to make meaningful and measurable progress to ensure all children across Australia can thrive.

Our Speakers

Sue Cridge, Director Education, SVA

Sue Cridge joined SVA in 2013 as the Director, Education for SVA Bright Spots Schools Connection. The Connection provides innovative support to leaders to develop projects and actions that respond to the issues of education disadvantage in Australia’s most challenged communities. Sue has over 38 years of both education professional and social sector experience within schools and at system and international levels of practice. She has been acknowledged as an Outstanding Educational Leader by the state of Victoria in 2003 and was awarded a Sir Winston Churchill Fellowship in Education in the same year while working in disadvantaged schools across the government education system. Sue also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation and the board of the Vincent Fairfax Ethics in Leadership Fellowship. Sue is also a member of Global education Leaders Partnership, International Congress School Effectiveness and Improvement, and an invited and sponsored Australian delegate to the World Innovation Summit Education.

Emma Sydenham, Director Early Childhood, SVA

Emma Sydenham is the Director of Early Childhood at Social Ventures Australia (SVA), developing SVA’s systems change program to work towards a reality where all children in Australia have the opportunities they need to thrive. Emma is a driven and passionate human rights and social justice advocate, with over 15 years of national and international experience in legal analysis and policy development, research, advocacy, coalition-building and organisational management. Emma started her career in law at Allens Linklaters (then Allens Arthur Robinson) before moving into the international human rights field to focus on poverty and human rights, with particular focus on women, children and First Nations peoples. Back in Australia, Emma most recently worked as Interim CEO and Deputy CEO with SNAICC, the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

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