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A 50 per cent reduction in funding for the government’s national tutoring programme (NTP) could widen the attainment gap between students from disadvantaged families and their peers, the Sutton Trust has warned.
Sir Peter Lampl says children ‘bust their guts’ when they get the chance but are being failed by ministers who come and go like a ‘bloody railway station’
The Sutton Trust says only 20 per cent of families earning less than £20,000 a year will have access to the planned expansion of funded places for early years provision, compared to 80 per cent of those with household incomes over £45,000.
The early years sector is increasingly moving towards offering childcare “at the expense of providing high quality education” due to “mounting pressures” on providers, according to latest research.
Many who praise a headteacher for preventing Muslim prayers are oddly sanguine about the number of faith schools in Britain, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee