A fairer start: why a more equal future begins with the first years of life
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Disadvantaged Education outcomes Life chances
  • Mar 17, 2022
Keeping young people safe at school and improving their life chances
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Life chances School attendance Pupil absence Pupil exclusions Disruption Education outcomes
  • Mar 16, 2022
Lack of soft skills education traps disadvantaged - lost £280K wage premium
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Soft skills Disadvantaged pupils Life chances Essential skills
  • Feb 22, 2022
Giving children a better start in life
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Health inequalities Life chances
  • Dec 14, 2021
Apprenticeships and traineeships are crucial to helping young people to succeed
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Apprenticeship training Traineeships Life chances Education outcomes Employability
  • Oct 21, 2021
10:00 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into improving life chances of children in care
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Education Committee Children's homes Life chances Education outcomes
  • Oct 19, 2021
Want your child to get ahead? Britain’s strictest headteacher has a harsh lesson for parents first
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Katharine Birbalsingh Social mobility Resilience Life chances
  • Oct 17, 2021
Improving the life chances of children in care – Education Committee to quiz experts
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In care Life chances Education Committee
  • Oct 14, 2021
Schools focus on basic skills to improve poorest children’s chances
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Life skills Life chances Employability Education outcomes Literacy Numeracy
  • Oct 10, 2021
The Big Ask: The Big Answer!
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Happiness Life chances Mental health
  • Oct 3, 2021
Poverty is not inevitable: What can your school do about it?
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Poverty Life chances Inequality
  • Sep 28, 2021
A matter of perspective? Outlook inequality and its impact on young people
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Education outcomes Life chances
  • Jul 7, 2021
Pupils lost a third of learning time during pandemic year
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Learning time Attainment gap Academic achievement Life chances Education outcomes
  • Jul 7, 2021
The challenges of COVID-19 for young people need a new cohort study
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Coronavirus Pupil outcomes Life chances
  • Apr 23, 2021
National study to track the pandemic’s effect on year 11 students’ life chances
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Coronavirus Life chances Pupil outcomes
  • Apr 23, 2021
Study to track Covid’s long-term impact on pupils’ life chances
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Coronavirus Life chances
  • Apr 23, 2021
Only a quarter of working-class children doing five hours of schoolwork a day in lockdown
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Coronavirus Online learning Working class Laptops Digital devices Disadvantaged pupils Attainment gap Life chances
  • Jan 21, 2021
Home schooling’s digital divide is having a devastating impact on poorer kids’ life chances
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Coronavirus Home schooling Online learning Disadvantaged pupils Digital divide Attainment gap Life chances
  • Jan 21, 2021
Invest in community and early years services to help tackle poverty, urges new BPS report
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Early years funding Child poverty Life chances
  • Nov 30, 2020
Toxic idea of male privilege is holding back the life chances of white working-class-boys
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Working class Boys Life chances Disadvantaged Attainment
  • Nov 19, 2020
Learning loss: the National Tutoring Programme for England is a valuable step – but may not go far enough
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National tutoring programme Catch up tuition Coronavirus Disadvantaged pupils Life chances Learning loss
  • Nov 12, 2020
9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence on left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds
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Coronavirus Regional inequality Attainment gap Life chances Working class
  • Nov 3, 2020
Impact of place on white working-class pupils and the importance of early years provision examined
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Working class Regional inequality Attainment gap Life chances
  • Oct 28, 2020
Coronavirus lockdowns widen the 'disadvantage gap' between rich and poor children
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Coronavirus Lockdown Disadvantaged Life chances
  • Oct 27, 2020
Can the COVID recovery tackle intergenerational injustice?
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Coronavirus Life chances Education outcomes
  • Oct 27, 2020
School closures could see pupils miss out on £11bn in future earnings, research finds
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School closures Life chances Education outcomes Disadvantaged pupils Coronavirus
  • Oct 1, 2020
How do essential skills impact on young people’s life outcomes?
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Essential skills Life chances Education outcomes
  • Oct 1, 2020
The Excluded campaign: 1,000 pupils and a game changing shift in tackling exclusions
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Pupil exclusions Life chances Pupil outcomes
  • Sep 21, 2020
Children who do not return to school next week risk 'huge dent in future life chances', says Gavin Williamson
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Coronavirus School reopening School attendance Life chances
  • Aug 30, 2020
Robert Halfon: We risk damaging the life chances of disadvantaged children if we don’t re-open schools
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Coronavirus School reopening Disadvantaged pupils Life chances
  • Jun 10, 2020
Social mobility barometer poll results for 2019
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Social mobility Life chances
  • Jan 21, 2020
Ireland: €38m scheme to boost young people’s chances in life
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Ireland Life chances Youth services
  • Dec 17, 2019
Colleges need support if social mobility is to be improved
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Life chances Lifelong learning Skills Training Social mobility Disadvantaged
  • Feb 21, 2019
Why not getting into Oxbridge can make, not break, students
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University admissions Oxbridge Life chances
  • Jan 10, 2019
Nurseries urged to interact with older people to boost children's life chances
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Life chances Early years Nurseries Childcare
  • Jan 8, 2019
Generational gap on apprenticeships revealed
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Apprenticeship training Life chances
  • Dec 18, 2018
More bedtime stories and no phones at the dinner table | Damian Hinds
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Language Speech Communication Home learning Parents Life chances Outcomes Reading
  • Nov 14, 2018
Small Yorkshire school helping some of most needy pupils faces axe
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Life chances Funding Cuts Pupil exclusions Alternative provision PRUs Pupil performance Pupil support
  • Nov 13, 2018
If spending on poor pupils seems lavish, it’s a drop in the bucket compared with cuts | Fiona Millar
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Education spending Disadvantaged pupils Life chances Attainment gap Pupil premium
  • Nov 13, 2018
Lords debates early intervention in children's lives
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Early intervention Life chances Social mobility
  • Nov 2, 2018
Head teachers should not be allowed to expel pupils because they will end up in gangs, says former Education Secretary Kenneth Baker
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Knife crime Gangs Pupil exclusions Expulsion Life chances Primary Secondary
  • Nov 2, 2018
Lords debates early intervention in children's lives
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Early intervention Social mobility Life chances
  • Oct 31, 2018
Letter to Robert Halfon from Nadhim Zahawi re the Life Chances Inquiry
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Robert Halfon Education Committee Nadhim Zahawi Life chances Inquiry EYFSP
  • Jul 18, 2018
10:00 am: the Education Committee to hold an oral evidence session to inform the life chances inquiry
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Life chances Inquiry Education Committee
  • Jul 10, 2018
Nadhim Zahawi: We cannot let any children be cut off from the chances this country can offer them
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Nadhim Zahawi Life chances
  • Jul 9, 2018
Rob Halfon: Supporting people’s life chances should be at the very front of all our thinking
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Life chances Robert Halfon
  • Jul 9, 2018
New project aims to improve life chances of teenagers
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Pupil outcomes Life chances
  • Jun 26, 2018
Halfon launches inquiry into impact of early years on later success
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Nurseries Childcare Life chances
  • May 8, 2018
Life chances inquiry launched
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Life chances Early years Research Literacy Numeracy Disadvantaged pupils
  • May 4, 2018
Daily roundup 4 May: Life chances, school inspections, charity merger
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Life chances Inspections Mergers
  • May 4, 2018