Industry News: David Laws speaks at the ATL conference on the pupil premium

Note from Community Family Care:

Education Minister David Laws has given a speech on the pupil premium at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) conference. Key points from the speech include:

• - There will be an increasing focus by government and Ofsted on how well schools boosted the results of their disadvantaged pupils
• - Almost eight in ten children on free school meals failed to get five good GCSEs, including maths and English
• - At GCSE level there is a 27% gap between the results of poor children and their peers

Source: www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/speeches/a00223302/lawsatl