Teach First is an educational charity that targets educational disadvantage by coordinating teacher training placements in deprived schools. Participants gain qualified teacher status through a paid two year training programme. The government’s charity register lists Teach First as having spent over £45 million on charitable activity over the last year and[…]
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This guardian article on calls for a ‘sugar tax’ cites statistics on child obesity prevalence by deprivation: As it happens these Public Health England (PHE) obesity statistics have been mentioned before on this site. But the association with deprivation made us curious about whether sugar consumption has a similar relationship. This[…]
Read More »I thought I’d do a summary of some different releases from HSCIC (Health and Social Care Information Centre) which gathers data from across the NHS. What’s notable is the breadth of different issues as the IMD is used to analyse relationships between health and deprivation across the board. ‘Maternity: Twice[…]
Read More »The Nursery Education Grant funds 15 hours free childcare a week for all 3 and 4 year olds in England and is distributed by the local authority. As this BBC article explains, research suggests local funding for nurseries may not be keeping pace with increasing costs in the form of[…]
Read More »This is a £25.4 million budget supplied through the health service to fund the commissioning and delivery of specialist drug and alcohol interventions for young people around England. Due to changes in its allocation in 2010/11 (find out more here) the budget is now linked to the Child Wellbeing Index[…]
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