It comes after the third annual “state of the nation” report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission called for a ”zero-tolerance” approach to schools that consistently fail to meet floor standards.
The document highlights that low-ability children from wealthy homes continue to overtake high-ability disadvantaged children during their time in school, while only 24 per cent of poor White British boys gain five good GCSEs against the national average of 57 per cent.
It has challenged the government to learn from the successes of the London challenge and to raise the attainment of poor children across the country to the current rate of inner London schools by 2030 – this would reduce the national attainment gap by two-thirds.
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