1. Home
  2. Education, training and skills

Education of disadvantaged children

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

On this page

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

See more services in this topic

Guidance and regulation

  1. Setting up school partnerships
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
  2. Designated teacher for looked-after and previously looked-after children
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  3. Promoting the education of looked-after and previously looked-after children
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  4. Service Pupil Premium (SPP)
    • Guidance
    • Ministry of Defence
  5. Education overseas for service children
    • Detailed guide
    • Ministry of Defence
See more guidance and regulation in this topic

News and communications

News story

Tech experts to provide National Centre for Computing Education

Department for Education

  1. Thousands more school children receiving a nutritious breakfast
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  2. Damian Hinds speech at Confederation of School Trusts conference
    • Department for Education
    • Speech
  3. Damian Hinds: Autonomy leads to progress in our schools
    • Department for Education
    • News story
  4. New education and skills measures announced
    • Department for Education
    • News story
See more news and communications in this topic

Research and statistics

  1. Opportunity area programme: research and analysis
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  2. Race Disparity Audit
    • Cabinet Office, Department for Education, Department of Health and Social Care, Ministry of Justice, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, and Race Disparity Unit
    • Research
  3. Secondary school choice and selection: national preferences data
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  4. School culture and practice: supporting disadvantaged pupils
    • Department for Education
    • Research
  5. Academic performance of disadvantaged pupils in and out of London
    • Department for Education
    • Research
See more research and statistics in this topic

Policy papers and consultations

  1. Analysing family circumstances and education
    • Department for Education
    • Closed consultation
    • Date closed 31 July 2017
  2. Social mobility and opportunity areas
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  3. The future of the Social Mobility Commission
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  4. Review of Children in Need
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  5. Improving social mobility through education
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
See more policy papers and consultations in this topic

Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Holiday Activities and Food: 2018 programme
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  2. Absence rates by gender, age and free school meal status
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  3. Economic value of GCSEs: region and disadvantage
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  4. Education statistics by LA district and pupil disadvantage
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
  5. Pupil premium: schools with good disadvantaged pupil results
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
See more transparency and freedom of information releases in this topic

Organisations

Show more organisations