If spending on poor pupils seems lavish, it’s a drop in the bucket compared with cuts | Fiona Millar

Social class has a huge impact on children’s life chances. Schools alone can’t fix it

There are many tricky questions facing education policymakers but here is a conundrum: why, if funding for poorer pupils is now outstripping money spent on those who are better off, is it proving so hard to narrow the attainment gap?

The funding figures revealed last week by the Institute for Fiscal Studies mask a complicated set of indicators. The shift in spending over the past 20 years includes more children from poorer homes staying on in higher education as well as the money committed to schools by successive governments for the worst-off pupils.

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