Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 19
19
Not Addressed
Implement an enrichment guarantee for pupils with KPIs focused on improving school attendance.
Recommendation
As the Centre for Social Justice have recommend, the Department should implement an enrichment guarantee for pupils in school including the use of sport, music, drama and art, looking to the youth sector for best practice. This guarantee should have KPIs focusing on improving school attendance, and the Department should provide options for schools to incorporate this via an extended school day, should they wish to implement one. (Paragraph 98) Barriers to attendance for pupils with health difficulties
Government Response Summary
The government does not commit to an enrichment guarantee or associated KPIs, instead stating that pupil premium and recovery premium funding, through its menu of approaches, already allows schools to fund extra-curricular activities like sport, music, drama, and art to address non-academic barriers to attendance.
Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government
Not Addressed
The Government is committed to supporting children from low-income families to achieve their potential, including £5bn investment in education recovery and £2.9bn annually in the pupil premium. The pupil premium funds evidence-based high-quality teaching, targeted academic support and wider strategies that will benefit pupils and help to raise their attainment. This can include wider strategies and/or interventions to support attendance, for example there will be a webinar on this topic in November 2023. To ensure that the pupil premium and recovery premium are focused on effective approaches to raising the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils, schools must use their pupil premium in line with the ‘menu of approaches’ set by the Department. The menu has been developed and assessed in line with the EEF’s 3-tiered approach to help schools allocate spending across the following 3 key areas: support for high-quality teaching, such as staff professional development; provision of targeted academic support, such as tutoring, including through the National Tutoring Programme; tackling non-academic barriers to academic success, such as difficulties in attendance, and supporting extra-curricular activities, including sport, music lessons and school trips.