News | Poverty

East Ham vs Newcastle: The sobering geography of social mobility

Narrowing the Gap

‘If they can’t go on to succeed in life, then who from a disadvantaged background can?’

Pupil Premium and disadvantage

Parents pay £2,274 a year to send their child to secondary school

Poverty

'Shameful' – 100,000 more children slip into poverty due to falling family incomes

Poverty

Calls for universal free school meals grow louder as campaigners hit Parliament

School food

Auto-enrolment for free school meals ‘a no-brainer’

Free School Meals

Levels of child poverty will not improve by 2030

Poverty

Children missing education: Up to 50,000 students will have left school by year 11

Vulnerable children

School staff resort to buying hygiene products for children in poverty

Poverty

Cost of school uniforms begins to fall

Poverty

One in five schools now operating food banks as cost of living bites

Poverty

Primary school exclusions link to secondary absence and GCSE attainment

Behaviour