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 grant
- Recovery premium funding
- Academic Mentors
- National school breakfast club programme
- Promoting the education of looked-after and previously looked-after children
News and communications
- Education Secretary urges remaining schools to participate in National Tutoring Programme
- Schools White Paper delivers real action to level up education
- One million tutoring courses delivered to help children catch up
- Package to transform education and opportunities for most disadvantaged
- Dr Jo Saxton at Sixth Form Colleges Association conference
Research and statistics
- 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
- Post-16 education and labour market activities and outcomes of looked-after children (LEO)
- Against the odds: better outcomes for disadvantaged pupils
Policy papers and consultations
- Free early education for 2-year-olds with no recourse to public funds (NRPF)
- Opportunity North East delivery plan
- Left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds: response to the select committee report
- Opportunity areas
- 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