- Newham has the highest rate of unemployment in London. It also has high rates of ill health and premature death. Up to 3.5 million children in England live in houses with a weekly income of between just £215 and £251
Educational inequality starts early, before a child even starts school. Figures show a one year gap in 'school readiness' between 3-year-old, and a 15 month gap in vocabulary development between 5-year-olds, in the richest and poorest families.
And the gap doesn't stop there. It continues and widens throughout school and has an impact throughout a child's life. At GCSE level, nearly 50% of children claiming free school meals achieve no passes above a D grade.
All of this has a knock-on effect on future earnings - the more you learn, the more you earn. In fact, over the course of a lifetime, a graduate from a Russell Group university will earn on average £371,000 more than someone who left school with less than 5 good GCSEs.
-Only 44 children on Free School Meals in the whole country get 3As at A level - the odds are stacked against all these children… and more
-What's more, education is linked with happiness and well being as well as mental and physical health and life expectancy. You are more at risk of spending time ‘not in education, employment or training’ if you have no qualifications.
-29% of men who had not been in education, employment or training at age 16-18 were involved in crime
In the 2011 riots :
-Two-thirds of the young people arrested in London had some form of special educational need
-A third had been excluded from school
In Prisons two-thirds have numeracy skills at or below an 11 year old
-Half have a reading ability at or below an 11 year old
-Seven out of ten female prisoners have no qualifications
-Half of male prisoners were excluded from school
-Over a quarter of prisoners were in care as a child
Educational inequality starts early, before a child even starts school. Figures show a one year gap in 'school readiness' between 3-year-old, and a 15 month gap in vocabulary development between 5-year-olds, in the richest and poorest families.
And the gap doesn't stop there. It continues and widens throughout school and has an impact throughout a child's life. At GCSE level, nearly 50% of children claiming free school meals achieve no passes above a D grade.
All of this has a knock-on effect on future earnings - the more you learn, the more you earn. In fact, over the course of a lifetime, a graduate from a Russell Group university will earn on average £371,000 more than someone who left school with less than 5 good GCSEs.
-Only 44 children on Free School Meals in the whole country get 3As at A level - the odds are stacked against all these children… and more
-What's more, education is linked with happiness and well being as well as mental and physical health and life expectancy. You are more at risk of spending time ‘not in education, employment or training’ if you have no qualifications.
-29% of men who had not been in education, employment or training at age 16-18 were involved in crime
In the 2011 riots :
-Two-thirds of the young people arrested in London had some form of special educational need
-A third had been excluded from school
In Prisons two-thirds have numeracy skills at or below an 11 year old
-Half have a reading ability at or below an 11 year old
-Seven out of ten female prisoners have no qualifications
-Half of male prisoners were excluded from school
-Over a quarter of prisoners were in care as a child