Education of disadvantaged children
Widening participation, funding for children in deprived areas. Improving attainment in schools for looked-after children.
Services
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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
Guidance and regulation
- School-led tutoring year-end statement
- National Tutoring Programme (NTP) allocations for 2022 to 2023 academic year
- National school breakfast club programme
- Recovery premium funding
- Designated teacher for looked-after and previously looked-after children
News and communications
- British High Commissioner inaugurates two learning centres for disadvantaged children
- Fusion robot at the ready for Blackbird Leys Festival
- £200 million of funding announced to address the disadvantage gap
- More disadvantaged students than ever will work or study around the globe through the government’s Turing scheme
- Education Secretary addresses LGA annual conference
Research and statistics
- Understanding earnings gaps for free school meals recipients in England: 2017 to 2019
- Opportunity areas programme: research and analysis
- Workless households and educational attainment statutory indicators, 2022
- Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators 2022
- Attendance at grant aided primary, post primary and special schools 2020/21
Policy papers and consultations
- Free early education for 2-year-olds with no recourse to public funds (NRPF)
- Opportunity areas
- Opportunity North East delivery plan
- Left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds: response to the select committee report
- Official development assistance (ODA): DfE spending statement
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Education, children’s social care and offending
- Identifying priority areas for raising school standards
- Free school meals: autumn 2020
- Social Mobility Commission unveils Annual Review 2020
- School nurseries capital fund: list of application outcomes