Professor Ruth Lupton and Dr Stephanie Thomson, of the University of Manchester, say that while the Pupil Premium has resulted in more money going to schools with poorer intakes, wider policies including cuts to welfare benefits and services have hit disadvantaged families.
Their research paper has been published in the London Review of Education, an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal based at the UCL Institute of Education, as part of an investigation into the coalition government’s impact on education.
The paper, Socio-Economic Inequalities in English Schooling Under the Coalition Government 2010-15, says that the Pupil Premium was “an isolated policy”.
It states: “The introduction of the Pupil Premium moved the issue of educational disadvantage to centre stage in the coalition’s schools policy programme. It has been a prominent policy which clearly signalled that the government was taking action.
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