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Too many children are not getting the education they are entitled to, according to an Ofsted report.
Too many children are either missing out on full-time education or not getting the part-time education they are entitled to.
Funding to support the education of children in care is to more than double from April 2014, announces Children’s Minister Edward Timpson.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Headteachers and deputy heads from schools across the UK came to Admiralty House, London, today to receive Pupil Premium Awards.
The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has written to schools selected as regional winners of the pupil premium.
David Laws was interviewed by 'The Independent' newspaper on how the uptake and use of the pupil premium funding varies across the country.
Edward Timpson, Children's Minister, speaks to the NSPCC conference on how society can be encouraged to protect children more effectively.
Universities need to reach out to primary schools to increase the number from disadvantaged backgrounds benefitting from higher education.
Michael Gove writing in the 'Daily Mail': "The way to get students from poor homes in weak schools into good universities is not to rig exams, establish quotas or inflate grades."
A growing number of schools are now using their Pupil Premium funding effectively to raise achievement levels among poorer pupils.
News on who has been appointed to help improve social mobility and reduce child poverty in the UK.
New report shows the gap between educational achievement of children in care and their peers continues to widen.
Information on the success of the English Baccalaureate.
Detail of a 50% rise in the pupil premium.
Information on how summer schools will benefit children making the transition from primary to secondary school.
Projects to be set up across England to help disadvantaged pupils who are below the expected level of English by the end of primary school.
In response to Polly Toynbee's comment published on guardian.co.uk on 24 May 2010, School's Minister Nick Gibb explains and justifies recent changes in the Department's funding allocation arrangements.
New fund launched to help disadvantaged children make the transition into secondary school.
England’s most disadvantaged pupils, including looked after children, are set to benefit from £600 each after the Department for Education announced next year’s Pupil Premium will increase by £112 for each pupil.
Free early education will be extended to 140,000 disadvantaged two-year-olds, and parents will be able to access the free entitlement more flexibly, under plans published by the Government today.
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