The Office for Students (OfS) has said it will not prescribe the types of outreach interventions that providers should deliver in schools to raise attainment, or the attainment outcomes on which these interventions should have an impact.
As a result, these are both questions that outreach practitioners and evaluators across the country are now grappling with.
But there is yet another question we need to consider – whose attainment should we be raising, and to what grades?
Before we can begin to look at what we can do to help raise attainment in schools, we need to try to understand why, and for whom, the OfS designed this policy.
Having clear in our minds who we are trying to help will should influence what is delivered on the ground.
