Some of the key education policies outlined that would most impact teachers and socio-economically disadvantaged pupils include:
- Extending the pupil premium out to 16 – 18 year olds and to young people in kinship care
- Increasing the Early Years Pupil Premium to £1,000 a year
- Introducing a ‘Tutoring Guarantee’ for every disadvantaged pupil who needs extra support
- Provide disadvantaged two-year-olds an extra five free hours of early years education a week, in a move towards universal, full-time entitlement for all two- to four-year-olds in the long term
- Tackling the issue of teacher recruitment and retention by looking at a funded programme of professional development for teachers and a workforce strategy to ensure secondary school pupils are taught by specialist subject teachers
- Extending the provision of extracurricular activities including free entitlement for disadvantaged pupils
Reacting to the manifesto, Professor Becky Francis CBE, Chief Executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: