Data Analysis SIG

• Find statistics and data - shows most recent data reports (DfE)

• Schools, pupils and their characteristics (DfE, 2025)

• Pupil absence in schools in England (DfE)

• Special educational needs in England (DfE, 2025)

• Children in need (DfE)

• Children looked after in England including adoptions (DfE, 2024)

• Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England (DfE)

• Annual Report 2025: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) (EPI, 2025)

• Report: Breaking down the gap (EPI, 2025)

• Report: Breaking down the gap - the role of absence and pupil characteristics (EPI, 2025)

• Report: Factors influencing primary school pupils’ educational outcomes (DfE, 2024)

• Annual Report 2024: Disadvantage (EPI, 2024)

• Report: Education: inequalities and attainment gaps (UK Parliament, 2024)

• Report: Mental Health of Children and Young People in England (NHS, 2023)

• Report: Education inequalities: Changes in education over time (IFS, 2022)

• Report: Outcomes by ethnicity in schools in England (DfE, 2022)

• Report: Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families (DfWP, 2017)

• Report: Rapid Review of Parental Engagement and Narrowing the Gap in Attainment for Disadvantaged Children (NFER & OUP, 2013)

• Research Report: Multiple disadvantage and KS4 attainment: evidence from LSYPE2 (DfE, 2019)

• Literature Review: Key drivers of the disadvantage gap (EPI, 2018)

• Report: Children in Need of help and protection - Preliminary longitudinal analysis (DfE, 2018)

• Systematic Review: What is the relationship between being in care and the educational outcomes of children? (University of Oxford, 2015)

• Guidance: Working with Parents to Support Children’s Learning (EEF, 2021)

• Policy Briefing: Closing the Attainment Gap (Sutton Trust, 2024)

• Blog: What will it take to close the attainment gap? (Sutton Trust, 2024)

• Blog: Is 'Progress 8' a level playing field? Applying the Critchlow-Rogers effect across schools (Linkedin, 2025)

• Blog: Is 'Progress 8' a level playing field? The effect of the school having a sixth form (Linkedin, 2025)

• Blog: Is 'Progress 8' a level playing field? The effect of different forms of selection (Linkedin, 2025)

• Blog: Is 'Progress 8' a level playing field? The 'London effect' (Linkedin, 2025)

• Blog: Is 'Progress 8' a level playing field? The effect of SEND (Linkedin, 2025)

• Inspection data summary report (IDSR) (Ofsted, 2024)

• Context and impact: getting beneath the surface (Ofsted, 2024)

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Guidance Documents

• Putting Evidence to Work (Implementation Guidance) (EEF, 2024)

Videos

• A schools' guide to Implementation - Animation (EEF, 2024)

• Newham Learning: Implementation (Newham Learning, 2022)

Templates

• Action plan template (pdf)

• Action plan template (docx)

• Case study template (pdf)

• Case study template (pptx)

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