Policymakers have failed to recognise the impact of long working hours on children's wellbeing, the Institute for Public Policy Research will say in its report, The End of Progressive Politics?, out today (6 November).
GCSE performance in specialist schools improves at half the rate it does in non-specialist schools, according to a Department for Children, Schools and Families study, which examined the impact of every £100 of investment.
Staff often fail to promote the advantage of direct payments, a study of individual budgets for families with disabled children has found.
The concept of wellbeing was described as a "cultural mirage" in research on children's wellbeing published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families last week. "It looks like a solid construct but, when we approach it, it fragments or disappears," says the research.
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