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Child is served a nutritious school meal by smiling dinner ladies

Breaking down barriers with free school meals

By Carl Emery, Louisa Dawes and Sandra Clare Filed Under: All posts Posted: October 7, 2024

Child poverty in the UK is a pervasive problem, with the latest figures showing that 29% of children in the UK are growing up in poverty. This rises to nearly 50% in families with more than three children. Child poverty is not spread evenly across the UK. 23.8% of pupils are eligible for free school […]

Tagged With: Children & Young People, education, food & agriculture, food insecurity, inequalities, Levelling Up, local government, MIE, poverty, schools, welfare

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Re-professionalising teaching: addressing authorisation, accountability and attrition

Andrew Howes By Louisa Dawes and Andrew Howes Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Education Posted: September 30, 2024

Teacher recruitment and retention is currently in a critical state – as outlined by The National Foundation for Educational Research’s (NFER) 2024 report on the teacher labour market in England. This puts at risk the quality of education that children and young people receive. In this article, Andrew Howes and Louisa Dawes acknowledge the Labour […]

Tagged With: Children & Young People, education, government, schools

Making the local matter: How the forces of power, poverty and place shape schools and schooling

By Carl Emery and Louisa Dawes Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Education Posted: October 25, 2023

In 2020/21, 3.9 million children in the UK are living in relative poverty (in households with an income less than 60% of the median household income). While policy aims to address the attainment gap linked to poverty, the current approach will take 500 years to close that gap. In this article, from our Power in […]

Tagged With: british politics, caring responsibilities & children, Children & Young People, communities, devolution, education, inequalities, local government, MIE, Power in Place, schools, SEED

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