How is it that in 2017, children are still being disadvantaged because of their parents’ income? Specific ethnic groups may have benefited from interventions to narrow the attainment gap over the past 25 years, but overall the gap persists. Poor children lag behind their better-off peers by nearly three years in reading, maths and science at 16 years old, according to recent research by the Sutton Trust.
This is despite a slew of national policies including the Pupil Premium, which is focused on improving the attainment of disadvantaged children. Two-year-olds from worse-off families are also given free childcare, a scheme introduced under the 2010 coalition government in an attempt to improve school-readiness.
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