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Responding to the announcement of new government regulations to improve school attendance, Emily Hunt, Associate Director for Social Mobility and Vulnerable Learners at the Education Policy Institute (EPI). said: “With more than one in five children persistently absent from school,…
By Education Policy Institute
Commenting following the government's announcement of a 'major national drive' to improve school attendance and ahead of a speech by the Shadow Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, on the Labour Party's plans to tackle school absence , Emily Hunt, Associate Director…
By Education Policy Institute
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) Annual Report looks at the state of education in England, with a focus on the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers. EPI's 2023 Annual Report compares student attainment in examinations sat in 2022…
By Emily Hunt, Sam Tuckett, and David Robinson
Commenting on the publication of the report by the Education Select Committee, Persistent absence and support for disadvantaged pupils, Emily Hunt, Associate Director for Social Mobility and Vulnerable Learners at the Education Policy Institute (EPI), said: “Today's report rightly acknowledges…
By Emily Hunt
Links to preceding blogs in the series Blog #1: Intersections between ethnicity and additional needs Blog #2: Additional provision for SEND, ethnicity and attainment Blog #3: Staffing variations for EAL, ethnicity and attainment Recap of the aims and findings In…
By Jo Hutchinson
Intro and recap In the first blog in this series, we examined the relative GCSE English and maths attainment of pupils with additional needs – those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and those who speak English as an…
By Jo Hutchinson
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Intro and recap In the first blog in this series, we examined the relative GCSE English and maths attainment of pupils with additional needs – those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and those who speak English as an…
By Jo Hutchinson
Back in May, we reported on the very high absence statistics that the Department for Education published for the autumn term of 2022/23. We were concerned at the time that absences hadn’t shown signs of coming down in the aftermath…
By Emily Hunt
In this blog we take a brief look at the GCSE attainment gap for children who are looked after by local authorities in England, alongside outcomes for the wider group of ‘children in need’. Looked after children are cared for…
By Emily Hunt
Series introduction In this blog series we will consider the relative GCSE English and maths attainment of pupils with additional needs during the Covid-19 pandemic – those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and those who speak English as…
By Jo Hutchinson
This is the second Education Policy Institute (EPI) report to Essex County Council’s Education Task Force, an independent body created to oversee post-Covid recovery in education and young people’s mental health in Essex. EPI has been commissioned to track how…
By Education Policy Institute
Introduction School absence has been the subject of much discussion since the first lockdown over two years ago. Yesterday the government launched its latest plans to tackle absence to coincide with newly released national statistics on absence in all…
By Emily Hunt
