Some of the key education policies outlined that would most impact teachers and socio-economically disadvantaged pupils include:
- developing a strategy to reduce child poverty
- recruiting 6,500 new expert teachers in subjects where there are specialist teacher shortages
- 3,000 new primary school-based nurseries
- free breakfast clubs in every primary school
- improving the quality of numeracy teaching across nurseries and primary schools
- funding for evidence-based early-language interventions in primary schools
- updating the Early Career Framework for teachers ensuring it remains evidence-based and introducing a new Teacher Training Entitlement to promote continuing professional development
- introducing a new Excellence in Leadership Programme, increasing the capacity of headteachers and leaders to improve their schools, as well as new Regional Improvement Teams to share best-practice between schools
Reacting to the manifesto, Professor Becky Francis CBE, Chief Executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, said:
Source for attainment gap levels in final paragraph: Executive Summary – Education Policy Institute (epi.org.uk)