Child of the North APPG

This analysis was published on behalf of the Child of the North All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), by Health Equity North and the N8 Research Partnership. It looks at inequities in funding between the North and South.

National Foundation for Educational Research

Drawing on online surveys of over 2700 teachers and senior leaders in April and May 2023, this is the first in a series of three cost-of-living reports. This report is focused on what impact teachers and senior leaders report cost-of-living pressures are having on pupils and their families.

Sutton Trust

This report looks at a group of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who showed academic potential at the end of primary school. It explores their progress during secondary school. Future reports will track their progress into higher education, training and the workplace.

National Audit Office

This report examines whether DfE is achieving its objective to ensure the school estate contains the safe and well-maintained school buildings that it regards as essential for a high-quality education.

National Foundation for Educational Research

This project used NFER’s Teacher Voice Omnibus survey to gather the views of 439 school leaders from a nationally representative sample of schools in England to understand the additional value and future potential of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP).

Department for Education

This DfE report presents the findings from the first national behaviour survey, for the 2021 to 2022 academic year. The survey provides termly data related to pupil behaviour.

Public Accounts Committee

This report covers the findings of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee’s inquiry into education recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition

The Behaviour and Mental Health in Schools Inquiry was launched in 2022, and explores the links between behaviour and mental health, how school behaviour policies and practices impact the mental health of children and their families, and to understand what can be done to help schools to better support behaviour, mental health, and wellbeing.

Education Support and Public First

Launched in December 2022, Education Support’s Commission on Teacher Retention had a six-month inquiry into drivers of teacher retention in secondary schools. This report sets out the findings of the inquiry.

End Child Poverty Coalition

Every year the End Child Poverty Coalition publishes data on the number of children living in poverty. This report summarises the latest data on local child poverty after housing costs for the year ending March 2022.

Covid Social Mobility and Opportunities Study

The sixth briefing of Wave 1 of the COSMO Study considers financial inequalities during the pandemic. Wave 1 of the study surveyed a sample of more than 13,000 young people in England who were in Year 11 in the 2020/2021 academic year.

Education Policy Institute

This analysis from the EPI is the first in a series of reports that will be published over the coming year. The research is based on Renaissance’s Star Reading and Star Maths Assessments, to create a large sample size of robust data on the performance of different pupil groups.

Child Poverty Action Group

The Minimum Income Standard (MIS) research sets out the minimum needs of families in the UK and why they are important. This report shows what primary and secondary school children need to be able to meet their minimum educational needs.

Education Support

This report looks at the expanding roles and responsibilities education staff have taken on. The research is based on a series of surveys, focus groups, and literature reviews.

Education Select Committee

The Education Select Committee of the House of Commons launched an inquiry into post-16 qualifications in November 2021. They received 121 written submissions and held seven oral evidence sessions.

Sutton Trust

The Sutton Trust’s report presents findings from a survey of 1,428 teachers, looking at the financial pressures schools are facing this year and how they’re spending their funding during the cost of living crisis.

Ofsted

This report explores multi-academy trusts’ responsibilities and how Ofsted evaluates their work in inspections of schools. It presents a picture of how inspectors and trust leaders view the role of the trust in the school inspection system.

Department for Education

The first wave of the inaugural working lives of teachers and leaders survey was carried out in spring 2022 with teachers and leaders in state schools in England. Findings are based on responses from 11,177 leaders and teachers.

Institute for Fiscal Studies

In this report, the IFS set out how college teacher pay has changed over time, comparing the pay of college teachers with that of school teachers. The report also looks at staff retention levels in schools and colleges.

Institute for Fiscal Studies

This IFS report looks at the options and trade-offs in expanding free school meals (FSM) in England. The report focuses on several potential reforms that would expand the generosity of the free school meal system, and sets out the costs of these policies.

Department for Education

The DfE’s Academies Regulatory and Commissioning Review has looked at how to maximise the difference that academy trusts can make to children’s lives, through a focus on trust quality and improved system resilience.

Centre for Social Justice

Since 2021, the CSJ has been investigating the issue of school absence. This report looks into persistent and severe absence,the latter which is defined as when a child is spending more time absent from, than present in, school.

National Foundation for Educational Research

The NFER’s fifth annual Teacher Labour Market report monitors the progress the education system in England is making towards meeting the teacher supply challenge by measuring the key indicators of teacher supply and working conditions.

Sutton Trust

This report looks in detail at the new landscape for tutoring,both private and school-based, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data comes from the Ipsos Young People Omnibus and the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities(COSMO) Study.

Coram

This report is Coram’s 22nd annual Childcare Survey. It is based on surveys from local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales, that were returned to Coram Family and Childcare between November 2022 and February 2023. A total of 191 local authorities returned data.

Department for Education

This is the DfE’s fourth State of the Nation report, focussing on trends in mental health and wellbeing over the 2021/22 academic year, when a range of recovery-focused activity was in place.

National Audit Office

This report examines whether DfE is achieving its objective to help pupils recover lost learning by effectively supporting education recovery in schools following the COVID-19 pandemic.

National Foundation for Educational Research

This NFER report provides insights into the current MAT landscape by investigating how the mainstream school system has evolved so far. It also considers the challenges in either pursuing an all-MAT system or in maintaining the current status quo and explores the role of LAs within the system.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

UK Poverty 2023 sets out recent trends in poverty across theUK, how levels of poverty differ between groups of people and regions, and the impact it has on people’s lives.

Kindred2

This report sets out key findings from the third annual Kindred2 survey of teachers’ views on the scale and impact of children missing their developmental milestones in their early years. Kindred2 surveyed over 1000 teachers, as well as 1000 parents.

Child of the North APPG

This report follows on from an evidence session held by the Child of the North All-Party Parliamentary Group which found that children in the North are some of the most vulnerable and least protected from the current cost of living crisis.

Association of School and College Leaders

This ASCL discussion paper seeks to support discussion about the future of inspection, and is drawn from the views of ASCL’s Council. The recommendations in this discussion paper are offered for comment, critique and stress-testing.

Northern Powerhouse Partnership

This report presents research findings from the NPP and the FFT Education Datalab. It looks at the relationship between attainment and the amount of time pupils have been eligible for free school meals (FSM), and the likelihood of being in a sustained positive destination by age 22.

Education Policy Institute

This report from the EPI examines the disadvantage gap in England during 2021, at GCSEs and A Levels. The “disadvantage gap” – the gap in grades between disadvantaged students and their peers – is a leading measure of social mobility in England and an indicator of the government’s progress in reducing inequalities in education.

Ofsted

Ofsted's Annual Report presents findings for the areas Ofsted inspect in early years childcare, schools, further education and skills and social care.

Institute for Fiscal Studies

This is the fifth annual report from the IFS on education spending. The report seeks to provide a clear and consistent comparison of the level and changes in spending per student across different stages of education.

Public First

This research from Public First included ten focus groups of parents of social grade C1 to D in 10 areas in England (including Teesside), and a nationally representative poll of 1000 parents with an additional sample of parents from red wall constituencies.

Sutton Trust

Polling conducted by Teacher Tapp for the Sutton Trust examines the issues that teachers are seeing their pupils face linked to living costs this autumn term. The polling looks at how the crisis is directly affecting students, and how this is affecting their educational experience.

Department for Education

This DfE data release contains national and provider-level information about the numbers and characteristics of new entrants to Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in England in the training year 2022/23; and 2022/23 Postgraduate ITT (PGITT)targets. This data set is released annually.

Covid Social Mobility and Opportunities Study

The fourth briefing of Wave 1 of the COSMO Study considers the mental health and wellbeing of young people in year 11. The first three briefings looked at lockdown learning, education recovery and catch-up, and future plans and aspirations.

Covid Social Mobility and Opportunities Study

COSMO examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on educational inequality, wellbeing and social mobility. The first 'wave’ of the study, which started in autumn 2021, recruited a sample of over 13,000 young people across England who were due to take their GCSEs in 2021. The study is led by UCL and the Sutton Trust.

National Foundation for Educational Research

This research by the NFER uses newly available teacher census data to make teacher attrition rate comparisons between England and Wales. The research compares teachers in schools in Wales with teachers in areas of England that have similar economic and contextual characteristics to Wales.

National Foundation for Educational Research

England has been facing a significant teacher supply challenge, marked particularly by under supply of maths, physics and chemistry teachers. This research by NFER, supported by the Gatsby Foundation, explores the impact of pay and financial incentives on shortage subject teacher supply.

The Centre for Education & Youth

This report explores how the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) can be improved. It is informed by a survey of 185 school and trust leaders and teachers, as well as 27 interviews with school and trust leaders, senior figures at the Department for Education (DfE) and others with research and policy expertise. This included contributions from Schools North East.

Children’s Commissioner

This report contains the findings of the Children’s Commissioner’s Attendance Audit. The audit set out with an overarching goal that every child should be in school every day, supported and ready to learn.

Times Education Commission

The Times Education Commission was set up in June 2021. Its aim was to examine Britain’s whole education system and consider its future in the light of the Covid-19 crisis, declining social mobility, new technology and the changing nature of work.

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs ‍

This government strategy follows the government-commissioned independent review of the food system, the “National Food Strategy” and builds on existing work across government and the actions already being taken forward by industry and other key actors.

Department for Education

DfE surveyed school business professionals between September 2021 and November 2021. The survey explores the characteristics of financial leads, the extent of their influence in decision making, and use of school resource management tools.

Education Policy Institute

This EPI study explored the underperformance of 580 schools in England that consistently received less than good Ofsted inspection grades between 2005 to 2018.

Education Endowment Foundation

This EEF study aims to understand the relationship between reception children’s experiences of the coronavirus pandemic and their academic achievement and socio-emotional development during their first year at school in September 2020 to July 2021.

Department for Education

The Schools Bill was introduced to Parliament in May 2022. The bill makes provisions for the regulation of Academies,education funding, and attendance of children in school. It is underpinned by the aims set out in the Schools White Paper.

Ofsted

These briefings from Ofsted look at education recovery and how schools, early years providers and further education and skills providers are responding to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. These briefings draw together evidence from a sample of routine inspections.

Education Policy Institute

The analysis from EPI researchers examines the extent of pandemic learning losses and recovery at both a national and regional level, in primary (years 4-6) and secondary schools (years 7-9), and among pupils from different socio-economic backgrounds.

Education Policy Institute

The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published a new study on the state of D&T. It is the first study to comprehensively examine trends in the subject over the last ten years.

National Foundation for Educational Research

The aim of the National Foundation for Educational Research’s (NFER) annual series of Teacher Labour Market reports, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, is to monitor the progress the school system in England is making towards meeting the teacher supply challenge.

Education Endowment Foundation

This rapid evidence assessment from the EEF examined the existing research on interventions that aim to improve pupils’ school attendance and the characteristics of these interventions, based on a systematic search of existing literature. This report summarises the findings from 72 studies.

Education Select Committee

This report from the Education Select Committee follows on from its inquiry into the Government’s catch-up programme. It sets out a series of recommendations, with a government response expected by the 10th May 2022.

Institute for Fiscal Studies

This is the fourth annual report published bythe IFS on education spending in England. These reports illustrate how spendingper pupil across different stages of education has changed over time.

National Audit Office

The National Audit Office (NAO) last reported on financial sustainability of schools in 2016. This is the second of two reports the NAO has published this year, following up on aspects of their 2016 report.

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The Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition

The CYPMHC Members’ Report 2021 is based on insights gathered from the Coalition’s member organisations, as well as from young people and parents, on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children and young people.

The Coalition for Youth Mental Health in Schools

The Coalition for Youth Mental Health in Schools is a coalition of schools calling for radical reform of how mental health is supported in educational settings. It was brought together during the second lockdown and was a direct response to the challenge of Coronavirus on the lives of all young people.

Education Policy Institute

This EPI analysis,commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE), models the long-run impactof the pandemic on learning loss and on future earnings.

Institute for Fiscal Studies

In this report, the IFS examine how the learning experiences of English school children evolved over the course of the first 12 months of Covid-related disruption, from the beginning of the first lockdown in March 2020 until the end of the second period of school closures in March 2021.

Institute for Public Policy Research

This IPPR report is a summary and proposed regional strategy drawn from a research programme undertaken during 2021. This research sought to explore the extent and nature of digital exclusion in the North East (not just in schools), to identify policy responses, and to outline a strategic framework for addressing digital exclusion in the North East.

Institute for Financial Studies

This briefing note provides an update on school spending trends over time, covering the most recent sets of data, forecasts and policy announcements. School spending covers pupils in state-funded schools aged 5–16, as well as pupils aged 16–19 in school sixth forms.

National Foundation for Educational Research

This report provides insights into schools’ support for the recovery of learning, wellbeing and opportunity, as well as challenges and support needs, once pupils returned to school full-time from March 2021. It is based on in-depth interviews with senior leaders in 50 mainstream primary and secondary schools across England, predominantly serving deprived populations.

Sutton Trust

With the poorest children already 11 months behind their peers when they start primary school, and evidence that the gap is beginning to widen, this Sutton Trust report looks at access to early years provision.

Education Policy Institute

This EPI report is based on the last in a series of surveys that were carried out over the past year to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the early years sector and on the staffing decisions that settings have had to make throughout the year.

Social Mobility Commission

Against the backdrop of the pandemic, the Social Mobility Commission has taken a deep look at the progress made in all four UK nations in tackling poverty, addressing inequality, and improving social mobility.

Education Policy Institute

This report from the EPI provides new insights into the educational outcomes of pupils in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since devolution. The study draws on the detailed Millennium Cohort Study of children born around 2000 and compares outcomes in reading, vocabulary, language and maths.

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National Audit Office

The NAO’s value for money reports examine government expenditure in order to form a judgement on whether value for money has been achieved. They also make recommendations to public bodies on how to improve public services.

Social Mobility Commission

The ‘Against the odds’ study investigates the characteristics and strategies of schools that have bucked the trend. Having conducted fieldwork in 32 English secondary schools, it is the largest study of its kind.

Centre for Social Justice

This report from the Centre for Social Justice looks at the growing rates of absences from school during the pandemic, and how this trend can be reversed, including recommendations to utilise the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) to improve engagement.

House of Commons Education Committee

This report of the Education Select Committee follows on from their inquiry into left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. The inquiry began on 17th April 2020,receiving 65 pieces of written evidence, and held eight evidence sessions.

National Foundation for Educational Research

This NFER research examines the impact of the apprenticeships reforms on SMEs and on young people, against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. It also considers to what extent the apprenticeship programme needs to be refocused in order to ensure that − as we continue to emerge from the pandemic − the apprenticeship system is working to support young people and SMEs.

The Labour Party

Informed by their ‘Bright Future Taskforce’,Labour has published a Children’s Recovery Plan setting out proposals for all children to ‘play, learn and develop’ in the post-Covid period, aiming to close the education gap so every child’s future is determined by their potential.

Public Accounts Committee

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Commons examines the value for money of Government projects, programmes and service delivery. This report looks at the Department for Education’s response to the pandemic, and sets out recommendations for what the DfE can do to help children recover from the disruption of the past year.

Sutton Trust

In this report the Sutton Trust outlines its priorities for a ‘fairness first’ recovery plan, from the early years to sixth forms and college, based on three principles: the right scale and duration to match the challenge, a targeted approach, and including children and young people of all ages.

Education Policy Institute

This report from the Education Policy Institute, funded by the Gatsby Foundation, examines the current supply of teachers in England, and considers whether reforms to pay policy, particularly at a local level, may lead to improvements in recruitment and retention.

Education Policy Institute

This analysis by the EPI modelsthe impact of lost learning and sets out a series of fully costed,evidence-based proposals, showing the significant investment required todeliver on the Prime Minister’s promise to the nation that ‘no child is leftbehind’.

The Education Policy Institute

This report by the EPI, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, looks at the separate paths the four nations in the UK are taking in education. The research provides insights into the impact of devolution to date and each nation’s current priorities.

The Education Policy Institute‍

The Education Policy Institute were commissioned by Wellcome to evaluate the costs and benefits of entitling all teachers to 35 hours of high-quality, continuing professional development (CPD) every year.

Education Endowment Foundation

The School Starters study, funded by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), aims to explore the impact of the disruption caused by the pandemic on children’s transition and adjustment to Reception classes across England, looking at emotional wellbeing, language, and numeracy skills. This paper reports initial findings from a survey of parents and schools carried out in the Autumn Term 2020

Educational Policy Institute

Ahead of a detailed report on education recovery to be publishedin May, the EPI has released preliminary findings that reveal thescale of the funding response needed from the government todeliver on its education catch up commitments for pupils inEngland.

National Foundation for Educational Research

The NFER’s annual Teacher Labour Market report, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, monitors the progress the school system in England is making towards meeting the teacher supply challenge by measuring the key indicators and trends of teacher supply and working conditions. This year’s report also looks at the impact of the pandemic on teachers’ well-being, workload, perceived job security and pay.

Education Policy Institute

This Education Policy Institute (EPI) study,funded by the Nuffield Foundation, quantifies how SEND support variesnationally, highlighting the significant inconsistencies in how children with SENDin England are identified and supported.

The National Audit Office

This report examines the Department for Education’s support for children’s education during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic between March and July 2020, and its action to help children catch up on the learning they lost during that period, focussing particularly on disadvantaged and vulnerable children.

The Northern Powerhouse Partnership

This analysis refreshes the research the NPP did in 2019, Next Steps for the Northern Powerhouse. The research in this analysis relates to pupils and exam results up to the end of the 2018/19 academic year. It is important to remember that this analysis relates to the situation prior to the Covid pandemic.

The Educational Policy Institute

This study looks at the mental health and wellbeing of young people in Generation Z, examining the personal experiences of young people in England, at age 11, 14 and 17. This is supplemented by focus group responses from November 2020

Ofsted

This report summarises the findings from several strands of research activity that Ofsted carried out in 2020. Remote education as a term covers any teaching where the teacher and pupil are not in the same room.

The Sutton Trust

This research brief looks at the situation for pupils during the latest round of school closures, with survey data from Teacher Tapp on teachers and YouGov on parents giving an up to date picture on how teaching is now being delivered remotely, access to resources, and barriers faced while learning at home, while also looking at how the impacts of the pandemic on education and social mobility can be minimised.

National Foundation for Educational Research

An NFER survey of schools’ responses to Covid-19 in May and July identified that a top priority for senior leaders was for the Government to provide more funding in order to manage the impact of Covid-19. This report investigates the impact of the pandemic on the funding landscape in mainstream primary and secondary schools in England.

The National Audit Office

This NAO investigation was prompted by reports in April 2020 of problems that schools and parents were experiencing when using the national free school meals voucher scheme, including difficulties and delays in accessing the Edenred website to order eCodes and convert them to vouchers.

Department for Education

This research from the DfElooks into the London effect using data from the Longitudinal Study of YoungPeople in England. The ‘London effect’ is the increased progress and attainmentof pupils in London compared to the rest of England, particularly fordisadvantaged pupils

Education Policy Institute

The EPI has published its recommendations on how the government should approach GCSE and A level exams in England in2021, including a back-up plan in the event that exams are cancelled again in the summer.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies

In the IFS’s annual report for 2020, they update estimates of spending per student and analyse the challenges facing each phase of education due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The report looks at all stages of education, from Early Years through to Higher Education.

Institute for Public Policy Research

With significant focus on recovery from the coronavirus, this report from the IPPR looks for opportunities to ‘build back better’. The report looks at longstanding weaknesses in the education system that pre-date the pandemic, beginning a debate about the ‘new normal’ in schools.

National Foundation for Educational Research

The Department for Education commissioned the NFER to carry out investigative research into school and trust governance. The research provides independent evidence to inform future policy developments and enable evidence-based prioritisation of resources to support school and trust governance throughout England.

CYPMHC

This is the first annual report published by the CYPMHC, shining a light on both the challenges and opportunities faced in protecting the mental health of infants, children, and young people in England in 2020.

Institute for Fiscal Studies

The IFS annual report 2020 looks at school spending, covering pupils in state-funded schools aged 5–16, as well as pupils aged 16–19 in school sixth forms. In 2019–20, total spending on schools in England represented about £51 billion (in 2020–21 prices), accounting for 17% of total public service spending in England