The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has been granted £200m of Covid recovery funding from the government to deliver initiatives aimed at closing the disadvantage gap.
A recent report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) finds that progress over the last decade to close the attainment gap between pupils from disadvantaged families has been “very slow”.
Meanwhile, analysis of this year’s A-level results by the Sutton Trust shows that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils accessing university compared with their more advantaged peers has widened since the Covid pandemic.
