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
- National Tutoring Programme: guidance for schools 2022 to 2023
- National Tutoring Programme (NTP) allocations for 2022 to 2023 academic year
- National Tutoring Programme: guidance for schools, academic year 2023/24
- Early years education recovery programme
- National school breakfast club programme
News and communications
- Funding boost to improve outside learning facilities
- LATAC renews regional commitment to Gender and Equalities
- Four young women from across Ghana chosen as Ambassador for a Day
- What support is available for students with a learning difficulty, mental health condition or disability?
- Thousands of families to benefit from local support in rollout of Family Hubs
Research and statistics
- School Meals in Northern Ireland 2022/23
- Workless households and educational attainment statutory indicators, 2023
- Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators 2023
- Post-16 education and labour market activities, pathways and outcomes (LEO)
- Best start in life: a research review for early years
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