Rates of child poverty are on the rise, and last year the Child Poverty Action Group estimated that 30 per cent of all children in the UK live in poverty. The impact of disadvantage particularly affects children's educational outcomes, with a report published in July by the Education Policy Institute identifying that the GCSE attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and better off peers has stopped closing.
While families' incomes are being strained, cuts to local services mean that schools are often plugging gaps in support. The pupil premium was introduced by government in 2011 to help schools mitigate the impact of disadvantage on pupils, improving their academic outcomes and helping to narrow the attainment gap.
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