Sam Fletcher

🗨️"Depending on the income level of their family, children had very different experiences of the pandemic."

@beckymontacute.bsky.social discussing how Covid lockdowns impacted children from disadvantaged backgrounds on @bbcradio4.bsky.social More or Less⬇️🎙️

🚨 NEW: The gap in access to internships between working-class and middle-class graduates has almost doubled since 2018.

Our new research reveals a growing gap in access to increasingly important internship routes, with many opportunities under and unpaid 🧵⬇️

💬 "The Children's Wellbeing And Schools Bill has the potential to be a bold step forward towards the Government's aim to break down barriers to opportunity." @nickharrison73.bsky.social

Our comment on the measures to be outlined in the Government's new Bill ⤵️

www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...

🤝 'The key to unlocking the potential of disadvantaged young people lies in providing them with fair access to the best schools'

What if we could improve inclusion without delay Sutton Trust research shows we can start closing the disadvantage gap - and Brighton and Hove shows us how

Many schools are socially segregated, driven by house price doom loop, Ofsted rating incentives & extra costs at some state schools. Change is possible & happening. Gov's plan to give LAs more control over admissions could be a game changer. @charleyo.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-have...

Any (Greater) Manchester-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent enrichment to v nice sixth-formers in Rochdale on Wed afternoons Jan - April?

Broadly on race, class, inequality w/ focus on issues relevant to young people... can pay in coffee + travel

@uomsociology.bsky.social

Centre for Young Lives report warns poverty and hardship are preventing some children from attending school amid big increases in persistent and severe absence among children receiving Free School Mea... Anne Longfield, Executive Chair of the Centre for Young Lives think tank, is today (Tuesday December 3rd) publishing a new report, ‘Too Skint for School’, examining the link between poverty and school...

Rising school absences and rising child poverty clearly interlinked. Hard for families to prioritise attendance when kids don't have uniform and equipment or even shoes, can't afford transport, are hungry etc etc. www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...

Local authority dashboard Explore data for your local authority and neighbourhood

Our local authority dashboard is free to use and offers insights on health and #HealthInequalities for all local authorities in England.

With updated data on work, money and resources, housing and transport, explore how your local authority compares 👇
https://buff.ly/3Ozn4UX

Not all universities use contextual offers to take account of applicants' backgrounds and potential when offering places based on grade requirements - find out which ones do here:

This is incredible. Asked about the fact that private school kids get extra exam time at a rate 16% higher than state schools, Therese Coffey's response is:

"It's not gaming the system. There's an opportunity there... You don't ask, you don't get."

I had to watch this several times, agog. ~AA

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New article with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social just out in Sociology of Education

We show that high SES parent’s expectations that their children complete university are sticky, ie. not affected if children’s performance at school is low.

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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I suspect removing the subsidy on alcohol would help to reduce how much is consumed!

For the first time we have a cabinet that's broadly representative of the public in terms of class and edu background, and the 2024 Commons is more socio-economically diverse than any parliament recorded since 1979. Are we seeing this reflected in policy so far? www.suttontrust.com/our-research...

The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in the next 1000 days (...

New Lancet paper 'The cost of not investing in the first 1000 days'.

Cites our Cochrane review on preschool-based feeding programmes in socio-economically deprived settings.

FEED STARVING CHILDREN in a timely way. Later (when they're older) may be too late.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

Meanwhile low income students in England graduate with highest debt and skip meals to get by. Many are missing lectures and working full time to cover rent.

School admissions dashboard: How does your school compare? - The Sutton Trust

Lots of talk about new @ofstednews.bsky.social report cards and inclusivity measures. If you want to see how schools in your area are doing on socio-economic inclusion, check our our @suttontrust.bsky.social school admissions dashboard. www.suttontrust.com/school-admis.... Rabbit hole warning!!

#researchers #academia #highered is this one for you? 👇

I've noticed a LOT of the charity and think tank people I follow are cat parents like me. So this is Marcel, aged 16. We've been living together much more harmoniously since he had to have most of his teeth removed. He thinks he's still biting me but I'm interpreting it as kisses. #catsofbluesky

More than 1.42 million emergency food parcels distributed in past six months | Trussell Food banks in our community gave out just over 1,428,000 emergency food parcels across the UK between April and September this year.

Worrying new data from @trusselluk.bsky.social.

Hungry children cannot learn effectively.

One way to take the impact of poverty out of the classroom is by widening Free School Meal eligibility to cover all families in receipt of Universal Credit.

www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...

What are Donald Trump’s plans to overhaul US colleges and universities? Republican president-elect says he wants to dismantle the US education department and fire ‘radical left accreditors’

There's lots that needs fixing with England's education policy, much of which gov have the will to do, but not *yet* the cash. But at least thankful we're not facing the absolute bin fire of Trump's emerging education agenda.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Inflation out today at 2.3% for October, slightly ahead of the Bank of England's recent projection.

But look which month is used to increase social security payments next April to compensate families for rising prices...

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Likely true that more progress would have been made if schools were measured on outcomes for poorer pupils. But major drivers of the attainment gap have been insufficient school funding, inadequate covid recovery, unfair admissions, rising absence and, of course, huge increases in child poverty.

you could literally do all this with that wasted public funding: www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/u...

It is good, but would be even better if this funding was targeted to primary and secondary pupils who need it. Hearing from teachers stories of older kids not eligible for FSM going in with an empty lunchbox pretending they're eating to avoid the shame, others avoiding the canteen at lunchtime.

That we seem to think we can't afford to do something about this, but then seem to believe we can afford dealing with all the consequences of this, tells you a lot about how we think about public finances.

More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century

1 in 3 children in poverty - an extra 260k 'on the breadline' since Covid. Children in poverty feel it in every aspect of life. Constant hunger, shame about living conditions and clothes, worry about bills. This is no way to set up the next generation for success. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

yes please 🤓