The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Mobility has called for “a national conversation” about the role these traits can play in narrowing the attainment gap between children from different backgrounds.
It says that schools should make it part of their “core business” to build pupils’ self-belief, perseverance, empathy and ability to bounce back “from life’s inevitable setbacks”.
The recommendations are part of a 60-page report – the Character and Resilience Manifesto – produced by the APPG in collaboration with the CentreForum think-tank.
The report’s proposals include a call for the government to extend the Pupil Premium to early years education and for Ofsted to build character and resilience activities into its inspection framework.
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