2021 annual report on education spending in England

Waltmann, Ben; Tahir, Imran; Sibieta, Luke; Farquharson, Christine

doi:10.1920/re.ifs.2021.0204

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“…Equally, we might consider whether Archer’s (2000) ‘dehumanised’ primary agents will be represented here by schools which do not receive the status of ‘good’ and so become the hidden ‘bad’ schools. Indeed, the evidence (Farquharson et al, 2021) suggests that this may be the case, as over the last 10 years the most deprived schools have had a funding drop of 14%, compared to 9% for the least deprived. Despite the importance of such considerations, they fall outside the purview of the present paper.…”

Section: Literature Part 2: the Evidence—use Of Research In Policy‐ma...mentioning

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Responding to research evidence in Parliament: A case study on selective education policy

Bainbridge

Troppe

Bartley³

2022

Review of Education

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This research focuses on how members of the UK Parliament engaged with evidence in relation to the policy decision leading to the Selective Schools Expansion Fund, a policy designed to enable the existing 163 English grammar schools to apply for additional funds to expand their intake. Although a small case study, the narrow focus provides a fertile setting for analysis of the relationship between research evidence, parliamentary debates and policy decisions.The article provides contextual background in relation to the dominant political parties' (Conservative and Labour) education policy manifesto statements and a discussion on the nature and understanding of evidence. Particular attention is given to how evidence can be used to support claims and the importance of justified warrants. Using NVivo software, we identified the thematic content of 11 parliamentary debates and analysed the findings using descriptive statistics, which we tested with a playful, carnivalesque extrapolation of the data. Argumentative

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Section: Literature Part 2: the Evidence—use Of Research In Policy‐ma...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Responding to research evidence in Parliament: A case study on selective education policy

Bainbridge

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Bartley³

2022

Review of Education

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“…Despite such calls for better oversight and auditing, there is little advice on the policy or administrative infrastructure necessary to enable this, and this omission occurs in the context generally of a policy lacuna in the area of special education spending, which has increased as general school spending per pupil in England has fallen by 9% in real terms between 2009–2010 and 2019–2020 (Farquharson et al, 2021).…”

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The increasing use of private special schools: A policy gap for inclusive education

Thomas

Dobson

Loxley

2023

British Educational Res J

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There have been significant increases in the number of children sent to non‐maintained special schools in recent years. To assess the extent of this trend and its probable consequences, Freedom of Information requests about spending on private special schools were sent to a stratified sample of 24 local authorities in England. The responses indicated substantial rises in spending recently, with very substantial spending on certain kinds of provision in the private sector—spending of up to £0.3 million per child per annum. We argue that the increasing reliance on private special school placement carries not only potential risks for the education, care and wellbeing of the students placed in often distant schools, with recent evidence of cases of serious neglect and abuse in such schools, but also threats to the development of inclusive practice. Current policy and its associated funding mechanisms incentivise separation and are inimical to the development of inclusive solutions to children's and young people's problems at school. We argue that systems need to be developed which enable the substantial sums currently spent on private special schools to be re‐deployed to cultivate imaginative inclusive responses to the difficulties experienced by some children at school.

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2021 annual report on education spending in England

Cited by 2 publications

References 3 publications

Responding to research evidence in Parliament: A case study on selective education policy

Responding to research evidence in Parliament: A case study on selective education policy

The increasing use of private special schools: A policy gap for inclusive education

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