Ben Araya Larrain
Driven by a passion for social mobility and improving young people’s outcomes in life, Ben has spent the past 10 years working on education related causes. He started his career working for an education NGO in Hong Kong focused on improving educational outcomes, before moving to another international organization focused on driving school entrepreneurship in East Africa and Central America.
He most recently spent 5 years within further education, working closely with the Department for Education to deliver professional development programmes for senior leaders, as well as running safeguarding networks and PREVENT delivery.
Outside of work, Ben mentors young refugees and asylum seekers through a partner organisation.
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Blog:Insights into Action: Using EPIC to plan for practice change
51% of headteachers have reported to YEF that they are not confident in identifying and delivering evidence-based interventions for preventing children’s involvement in violence. To better enable awareness and engagement of this evidence, YEF launched the Education Practice Insight Creator (EPIC) in July 2025, with over 250 schools having completed it so far. EPIC is a free, digital self-assessment tool designed to help education leaders…
