Equity SIG

This group aims to support school leaders to ensure they consider equity in their provision. Unlike our communities, our special interest groups are intended for self-study. They are aimed at those with a responsibility or an interest in this aspect of education. Please look out for one-off events that support this SIG.

30 Sep 2026

From the Chartered College of Teaching

As part of our four-year Mission 44-funded project, Increasing Diversity in ITT, we have developed a free certified online course in partnership with Being Luminary and Chiltern Learning Trust.

This online course, aimed at educators, leaders and mentors working in initial teacher training in UK contexts, explores the systemic barriers faced by trainees from global majority backgrounds when applying for and completing training, and provides language, tools and frameworks for embedding equity in teacher training.

Members can access this course for free and free guest membership is available to complete the programme.

You can access the programme here: https://chartered.college/diversity-in-itt-course/

• Guidance: The EEF Guide to the Pupil Premium (EEF, 2025)

• Guidance: Using pupil premium: guidance for school leaders (DfE, 2025)

• Guidance: Sources of income for early years providers (DfE, 2018)

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

• Guidance: The Gatsby Careers Benchmarks (Gatsby, 2025)

• Report: Race Equality Engagement Group - One year of action (ft. Maryland School) (OE&O, 2026)

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

• Report: Unequal Returns: The case for reforming the Pupil Premium (CSJ, 2025)

• Annual Report 2024: Disadvantage (EPI, 2024)

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Article: Lessons for addressing educational disadvantage from a range of studies (Cogent Education, 2023)

• Article: When and why do initially high achieving poor children fall behind (Crawford, Macmillan & Vignoles, 2016)

• Article: “You did incredibly well!”: teachers’ inflated praise can make children from low-SES backgrounds seem less smart (but more hardworking) (NPJ, 2023)

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

• Video: [The curriculum and] social justice (Ofsted, 2019)

• Video: Understanding disadvantage - the power of communication, language and literacy (ELRS)

• Podcast: Evidence into Action: Defining disadvantage (EEF, 2023)

• Podcast: Evidence into Action: Making the Difference for Disadvantaged Pupils (EEF, 2020)

• Gender equality in STEM (L1) free account required (Open University)

• Increasing Diversity in ITT free account required (Chartered College of Teaching)

(coming soon)

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)

(coming soon)