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Education of disadvantaged children

Widening participation, funding for children in deprived areas. Improving attainment in schools for looked-after children.

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Services

  1. If your child is taken into care

    What happens when a child is taken into care - who is responsible for what, care proceedings, care orders, going to court and the role of Cafcass

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Promoting the education of looked-after and previously looked-after children
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  2. Service children in state schools (SCISS) handbook
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education and Ministry of Defence
  3. Designated teacher for looked-after and previously looked-after children
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  4. Service Pupil Premium (SPP)
    • Guidance
    • Ministry of Defence
  5. Setting up school partnerships
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
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News and communications

News story

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Department of Health and Social Care

  1. Competition launches to find best quality early years apps
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  2. Society-wide mission to tackle early literacy and communication
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  3. Education Secretary calls for children to spend summer outdoors
    • Department for Education
    • Press release
  4. Lord Glenamara prize expands to recognise North East excellence
    • Department for Education
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Teacher workforce statistics in grant-aided schools in Northern Ireland, 2018/19
    • Department of Education (Northern Ireland)
    • National statistics
  2. Multiple disadvantage and KS4 attainment: evidence from LSYPE2
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  3. Outcomes for children looked after by LAs: 31 March 2018
    • Department for Education
    • National statistics
  4. Annual enrolments at schools and in funded preschool education in Northern Ireland, 2018/19
    • Department of Education (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
    • National statistics
  5. Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators 2019
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Analysing family circumstances and education
    • Department for Education
    • Closed consultation
    • Date closed 31 July 2017
  2. Review of children in need
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  3. Social mobility and opportunity areas
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  4. The future of the Social Mobility Commission
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  5. Improving social mobility through education
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. School nurseries capital fund: list of application outcomes
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  2. Holiday Activities and Food: 2018 programme
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  3. Absence rates by gender, age and free school meal status
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  4. Economic value of GCSEs: region and disadvantage
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  5. Education statistics by LA district and pupil disadvantage
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
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