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Targeted Funding to Improve Educational Outcomes
- This consultation has completed. It ran from Monday, 6 November 2017 to Friday, 12 January 2018
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Response to the consultation
Evidence submitted in response to this Consultation
- TF 01 Adoption UK PDF 242 KB View as HTML (1) 17 KB
- TF 02 National Education Union Cymru PDF 338 KB View as HTML (2) 53 KB
- TF 03 University and College Union PDF 142 KB
- TF 04 Teach First Cymru PDF 345 KB
- TF 05 The Royal British Legion PDF 471 KB
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- TF 06 Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru (UCAC) (Welsh only) PDF 257 KB
- TF 07 Central South Consortium Joint Education Service PDF 222 KB View as HTML (8) 20 KB
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- TF 08 Mudiad Meithrin (Welsh only) PDF 409 KB View as HTML (10) 39 KB
- TF 09 Professor Mel Ainscow PDF 223 KB View as HTML (11) 53 KB
- TF 10 People and Work PDF 102 KB View as HTML (12) 25 KB
- TF 11 Estyn PDF 383 KB View as HTML (13) 106 KB
- TF 12 Education Achievement Service for South East Wales PDF 284 KB View as HTML (14) 47 KB
- TF 13 Association of School and College Leaders PDF 111 KB View as HTML (15) 31 KB
- TF 14 GwE PDF 454 KB
- TF 15 NASUWT PDF 120 KB View as HTML (17) 37 KB
- TF 16 Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) PDF 48 KB
- TF 17 Swansea Council PDF 174 KB View as HTML (19) 20 KB
- TF 18 Ethnic Minorities & Youth Support Team Wales (EYST Wales) PDF 294 KB View as HTML (20) 49 KB
- TF 19 National Association of Head Teachers Cymru PDF 351 KB View as HTML (21) 47 KB
- TF 20 Education through Regional Working (ERW) PDF 261 KB View as HTML (22) 597 KB
- TF 21 Welsh Government PDF 1 MB
Purpose of the consultation
The Children, Young People
and Education Committee conducted an inquiry into the Welsh Government’s
approach of targeting funding* on particular cohorts of pupils**, primarily
disadvantaged pupils through the Pupil Development Grant (PDG). The inquiry also
considered the complementary yet distinct Schools Challenge Cymru programme,
which until its closure in March 2017 focused on schools facing the greatest
challenges in improving.
The inquiry focused on:
- Schools’
use of the PDG and the extent to which this benefits the pupils it is
designed to be targeted at;
- The
relationship between PDG-funded support for pupils eligible for free
school meals (eFSM) and expenditure on activities designed to improve
attainment of all pupils;
- Regional
consortia’s use of the PDG on looked after and adopted children, and the
impact this is having;
- Progress
since the previous Children, Young People and Education Committee 2014
inquiry; Educational outcomes for children
from low income households;
- The
impact of the Schools Challenge Cymru programme and the consequences of
its closure on the participating ‘Pathways to Success’ schools;
- How the
lessons and legacy of Schools Challenge Cymru can be used to complement
subsequent policies and initiatives aimed at improving educational
outcomes;
- Evaluation
of attainment data in light of the PDG and Schools Challenge Cymru
programmes;
- Targeted
funding / support for more able and talented pupils;
- The
value for money of both the PDG and Schools Challenge Cymru programmes.
*The inquiry was not looking at educational improvement more generally
as such an inquiry would be too wide in scope for an individual Committee
inquiry. The inquiry was therefore not about the general £100 million pledged
within the fifth Assembly for improving school standards across the board but
focused on funding which the Welsh Government targets at improved the
performancee and standards of specific groups of pupils and schools.
** There are various funding streams, which are over and above general
education funding. However, the inquiry was primarily concerned with the pupils
and schools targeted by funding from the PDG and Schools Challenge Cymru. These
include the aspects of the Education Improvement Grant (EIG) intended to
support Gypsy, Roma and Traveller, and Minority Ethnic learners, and funding
for meeting learners’ Additional Learning Needs (ALN). The Committee had
already undertaken an inquiry into the EIG as well as scrutiny of the ALN Bill.
Contact details
Should you wish to speak to someone regarding this consultation, please use the below contact details:
Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Parliament
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1SN
Email: Contact@senedd.wales
Telephone: 0300 200 6565