The Teach First Innovation Award supports social enterprises dedicated to tackling educational inequality and closing the attainment gap. We hear from three previous winners about their work and ask for their advice on closing the gap

The issues underpinning educational inequality are vast and require the efforts and expertise of more than just one organisation.

Set up in 2013, and supported by Credit Suisse EMEA Foundation and Esmee Fairburn Foundation, Teach First’s Innovation Unit exists to nurture and support new innovative solutions needed to close the achievement gap between children from poorer backgrounds and their wealthier peers.

Below, three past and present Innovation Partners with Teach First set out some of the challenges that persist in education, how they are addressing these, and what their advice is to schools to further build on where great work exists.

When it comes to a child’s education, we talk about teachers, structures, curriculums, but nutrition and diet? They’re not always the first things that come to mind when we think about the best way of improving young people’s educational outcomes.

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