Socio-economic Equity SIG

• 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: 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)

(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)

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