Industry News
More funding needed to close state/private gap
Posted on 12th September 2007
Increased funding is necessary to allow state schools to close the gap between their performance and that of private schools, the government has been told.
The Campaign to End Child Poverty says more funds need to be invested in education in order to end inequalities.
It also expressed concerns over children being raised in poverty and claims by the age of 14, children from underprivileged backgrounds are two years behind their peers.
By as young as three, children are nine months behind those from "better off families" the campaign stated.
The campaigners believe 3.8 million UK children live in poverty and say a further £4 billion must be invested now to ensure the government reaches its target of halving child poverty by 2010.
The Child Poverty Action Group says poverty spreads "moral, social and economic corrosion throughout British society" and that parent's inadequate incomes affect children's lives and chances.