Abstract
The reduction of socio-economic inequalities in school outcomes was a major priority of the Coalition Government in England from 2010–15. In this paper we examine the Coalition's policies and spending, including an analysis of the distributional effect of its pupil premium policy. We also look at trends in outcomes up to 2014. We find that although the pupil premium had a modest overall effect of distributing more money to schools with poorer intakes, this was nested within a wider set of policies which have disadvantaged low income families and children, and that there is evidence of socio-economic gaps widening on some indicators.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4-20 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | London Review of Education |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 18 Sept 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 18 Sept 2015 |
Bibliographical note
AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to the Nuffield Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Trust for London who funded the work underlying this paper, to colleagues at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at LSE who advised and commented on the analysis, and to two anonymous referees for their helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper.
Keywords
- poverty
- inequality
- attainment gap
- pupil premium
- school funding
- policy
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