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Harder to track poorer pupils' progress after Universal Credit changes
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Universal credit
Disadvantaged pupils
Pupil outcomes
Progress measures
Jan 18, 2022
Remove the universal credit rules blocking people from education
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Universal credit
Skills
Training
Jan 14, 2022
New CPAG report reveals barriers to Universal Credit for disabled students - AoC responds
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Disabled
Universal credit
Dec 8, 2021
Disabled students ‘could be forced out of education’ by new Universal Credit rules
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Disadvantaged students
Disabled
Universal credit
Dec 8, 2021
Universal Credit training flexibility extended by six months
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Universal credit
Oct 20, 2021
The Universal Credit cut is also a cut to education
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Universal credit
Child poverty
Attainment gap
Oct 8, 2021
NEU comment on cuts to Universal Credit
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Universal credit
Oct 5, 2021
Skills: Government 'must scrap universal credit rules'
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Universal credit
Skills
Training
Jun 9, 2021
Unemployment, welfare and education - New AoC report and recommendations
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Jun 9, 2021
Universal credit rules hold people back from training, warns report
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Jun 9, 2021
Universal credit and free school meals
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Free school meals
Universal credit
Jan 18, 2021
School meals: Cabinet minister defends refusal to extend holiday scheme
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Free school meals
Universal credit
Local councils
Oct 25, 2020
Universal credit childcare rules could discriminate against women
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Universal credit
Free childcare
Mar 10, 2020
Up to 680,000 working parents on Universal Credit missing out on £13,000 free childcare
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Free childcare
Universal credit
Feb 21, 2020
New research highlights a catalogue of issues with universal credit
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Universal credit
Disadvantaged
Jul 19, 2019
Experiences of families on universal credit 'dismissed' by government
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Universal credit
Childcare
Apr 11, 2019
“Dismissive, disrespectful” Government response treats Committee and witnesses “like dirt”
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Childcare
Universal credit
Apr 11, 2019
MPs demand Government review its 'disrespectful' response to universal credit report
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Apr 11, 2019
Nursery workers stripped of Universal Credit worth £100s in huge payments flaw
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Feb 27, 2019
Universal credit 'prompting dramatic drop in school funding'
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Jan 15, 2019
Universal Credit parents 'in debt' over upfront childcare costs
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Jan 3, 2019
Universal credit: Children left hungry as their families find work doesn’t pay
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Nov 8, 2018
The government has updated the criteria for free school meals eligibility
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Sep 11, 2018
Working families 'losing hundreds' under Universal Credit
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Poverty
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CPAG
Aug 6, 2018
Daily roundup 5 July: School improvement, Universal Credit and Welsh childcare
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Jul 5, 2018
Universal Credit families denied help with 'sky high' upfront childcare fees
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Jun 21, 2018
The changes to free school meals in Wales that will hit people on Universal Credit
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Wales
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Jun 8, 2018
Millions of kids 'will miss out on free school meals' by 2022 under Universal Credit plan
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Disadvantaged pupils
Jun 3, 2018
Universal credit changes will bar 2.6 million children from free school meals, warns Labour
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Jun 3, 2018
Youth homelessness rise linked to welfare reforms, report finds
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Apr 16, 2018
Free school meals are changing but will children lose out?
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Apr 6, 2018
Daily roundup 5 April: Signs, free school meals, and stabbing death
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Apr 5, 2018
Hundreds of thousands of children to lose free school meals
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Universal credit
Apr 5, 2018
Free school meals under universal credit: slightly more children to be eligible overall, but 1 in 8 who would have qualified under previous system will be ineligible
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Apr 5, 2018
Free schools meals changes: 210,000 pupils win; 160,000 lose
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Apr 5, 2018
Welfare reforms create free school meals winners and losers, analysis claims
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Apr 5, 2018
160,000 children to miss out on free school meals thanks to universal credit plans
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Disadvantaged pupils
Funding
Apr 5, 2018
160,000 will lose their free school meals
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Universal credit
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Apr 5, 2018
160,000 children will lose free school meals, says spending watchdog
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Apr 5, 2018
Updated Guidance about free school meals
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Universal credit
Mar 26, 2018
Free School Meals: guidance for schools and local authorities
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Disadvantaged pupils
Mar 22, 2018
Eligibility for free school meals and the early years pupil premium under Universal Credit
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Universal credit
Disadvantaged pupils
Mar 21, 2018
Lords debates free school lunches and milk regulations
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Disadvantaged pupils
Mar 21, 2018
Lords debates free school lunches and milk regulations
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Disadvantaged pupils
Mar 21, 2018
Written answer re cost of extending free school means and the pupil premium to all pupils whose parents receive Universal Credit
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Hansard
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Mar 20, 2018
Lords debates free school lunches and milk regulations
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Mar 19, 2018
Lords debate re the effect of proposals for passporting family entitlement to FSM on Universal Credit work incentives
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Free school meals
Mar 15, 2018
Labour loses bid to give free school meals to all universal credit claimants
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Mar 13, 2018
Labour move to block cuts to free school meals through Commons vote
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Mar 8, 2018
Support the Children’s Society campaign to ensure that all families on universal credit are entitled to a free school meal
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Mar 6, 2018
Free school meals
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Mar 6, 2018
Eligibility for free school meals and the early years pupil premium under Universal Credit
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DfE
Feb 13, 2018
EDM 936 (Jeremy Corbyn): that the Free School Lunches and Milk, and School and Early Years Finance (Amendments Relating to Universal Credit) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 148), dated 6 February 2018 be annulled
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Feb 10, 2018
Free School Meals: More than one million children could miss out after Universal Credit change, says Labour
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Feb 8, 2018
Zahawi confirms changes to two-year-old eligibility, free school meals and EYPP
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Nadhim Zahawi
Free school meals
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Universal credit
Feb 8, 2018
Universal credit: One million children 'to miss out on free school meals'
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Nadhim Zahawi
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Disadvantaged
Feb 7, 2018
Free school meals revamp 'could leave million children without hot food'
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Feb 7, 2018
Free school meals and the early years pupil premium (EYPP) under Universal Credit: equality analysis
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EYPP
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DfE
Feb 7, 2018
Free early years entitlement for 2 year olds under Universal Credit
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DfE
Universal credit
Feb 7, 2018
Eligibility for free school meals and the early years pupil premium under Universal Credit
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DfE
Feb 7, 2018
Government responds to consultation on disadvantage support
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DfE
Nadhim Zahawi
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Feb 7, 2018
Free early years entitlement for 2 year olds under Universal Credit: equality analysis
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Free childcare
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DfE
Feb 7, 2018
Government sets £7,400 annual income threshold for free school meals
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EYPP
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Feb 7, 2018
Government confirms free school meals eligibility under universal credit
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Free school meals
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Nadhim Zahawi
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Disadvantaged pupils
Feb 7, 2018
'A cut disguised as kindness’ – concerns over free school meal reforms
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DfE
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Universal credit
FSM
Disadvantaged pupils
Jan 17, 2018
Free school meals plan threatens to leave children hungry, warns union
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Universal credit
Jan 15, 2018
Labour demands free school meals for all pupils on universal credit
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Dec 23, 2017
Children in poverty will miss out on free school meals under universal credit
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Dec 19, 2017
Food banks expected to help 'record number of children'
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Universal credit
Dec 11, 2017
Childcare eligibility changes to extend provision to 8,000 more two-year-olds
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Universal credit
Dec 5, 2017
More children to be eligible for funded two-year-old places
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Dec 5, 2017
Views sought on early years education for disadvantaged children
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Early years
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15-hour childcare
Universal credit
Dec 4, 2017
Free early years entitlement for 2 year olds under Universal Credit
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Early years
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Dec 4, 2017
Daily roundup 4 December: Part-time jobs, free childcare, and Universal Credit
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Scotland
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Employment
Dec 4, 2017
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (November 2017)
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Nov 27, 2017
The Chancellor has bought some time on Universal Credit – but the problems are still just beginning
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Nov 23, 2017
Protection pledge for pupils on free school meals as Universal Credit switch approaches
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DfE
Nov 22, 2017
Autumn Budget 2017: our response
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Nov 22, 2017
Auto-enrolment for pupil premium is a 'must-do' for government, say NAHT
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Free school meals
Universal credit
Disadvantaged pupils
Nov 17, 2017
Free school meals 'to be provided to 50,000 more children'
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Free school meals
Disadvantaged pupils
Funding
Universal credit
Early years pupil premium
Attainment
Nov 17, 2017
Free school meals rule change will leave disadvantage data ‘completely useless’
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Free school meals
Universal credit
DfE
Disadvantaged pupils
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Pupil premium
Nov 16, 2017
Universal credit could mean 50,000 more children get free school meals
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Free school meals
Disadvantaged pupils
Universal credit
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Means testing
Pupil premium
Nov 16, 2017
Consultation on disadvantaged entitlements under Universal Credit
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DfE
Universal credit
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Nov 16, 2017
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