Sentences with phrase «improve life chances»

National policies which aim to improve the life chances for all children, including looked after children, are covered in the England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland sections.

I have also met with many non-Indigenous people and organisations, including those working in government, who are behind us all the way — people who want to walk with us and work with us to improve the life chances for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia.

The Flying Start programme, 28 launched across all local authorities in Wales in 2007/2008, is a Welsh Government programme that aims to improve life chances for children from birth to age 4 by providing early years care and education.

We believe that high - quality early childhood services are the most powerful tool to improve the life chances of vulnerable children.

This, it says, would save up to # 10,000 per inmate and improve the life chances of the women's children.

This fundraising event will help Shakespeare Schools Foundation to continue their vital work, giving young people a chance to discover themselves and improve their life chances through Shakespeare.

If they can then really improve the life chances of the disadvantaged, those with SEND, those attracting pupil premium funding, then maybe they will have an argument.

That is a recipe for a social mobility disaster, undermining all the progress made in recent years to raise aspiration and improve life chances.

The report focusses on the growing importance and impact of essential life skills, both in the work place and to improve life chances of young people.

It remained a means to a larger end: to improve teaching and learning for all children; in particular, to improve the life chances of the poor and dispossessed.»

Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the LGA Children and Young People Board, said: «Councils are ambitious to improve the life chances of all the children and young people in their communities and understand the key role that strong school leadership plays in improving their outcomes.

PiXL describes itself as the largest partnership network of schools in England that work together to «achieve the highest outcomes for students and improve their life chances».

Life Lessons — Improving Essential Life Skills for Young People — Sutton Trust Report October 2017 The report focusses on the growing importance and impact of essential life skills, both in the work place and to improve life chances of young people.

«Instead of making scapegoats of people who are simply attempting to improve the life chances of their kids, the focus should be on driving up the quality of teaching in the poorest areas of the country.

Responding to the report's findings, the government maintained it strived to «eliminate child poverty and improve life chances for all».

I feel privileged to have the opportunity to lead an organisation that can enable excellence to flourish throughout the profession and improve the life chances of children, young people and learners.

Having worked in schools in the region for 25 years I relish the opportunity of working with Sir David Carter, the National Schools Commissioner, and the other regional schools commissioners to improve the life chances for all pupils and students in our schools and academies.

We are an enormously diverse group, yet we share a passion for designing, implementing, and evaluating media and technology that will improve the life chances of all children and young people.

Numeracy is a fundamental life skill that helps children thrive, learn and improve life chances.

«My greatest hope for my research is to identify and breakdown barriers to settings and environments that can improve the life chances of children living in poverty.»

A recent book by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge of American Education, for example, describes what the authors call «high schools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Schools.

«Since 1973, Marian Wright Edelman and her team have been working to improve the life chances of all children, especially the poor.

Certainly any strategy that seeks to improve life chances and equalise opportunities for children without turning the tide against growing levels of child poverty is going to face an uphill struggle and place an even greater burden on services that seek to alleviate various negative effects of inadequate family resources.

This new study, and associated resources, will provide practitioners, parents and researchers with an invaluable resource in the crucial work that they are doing to improve the life chances of young children in the UK.»

Teacher Michael Crowhurst, who had asked the leaders who they would improve the life chances of his pupils, said the answers he had received meant he was «probably more likely to switch to the Tories».

Unshackled from the Lib Dems he painted himself as a great social reformer, the «One Nation» Tory who would improve life chances, stamp out extremism and reform prisons.

The original purpose of Sure Start, launched by the previous Labour government in 1998, was to improve the life chances of children living in poverty by providing services that ameliorate the impact of poverty and encouraging parents into employment.

Labour pledges to improve the life chances of the poorest without raising taxes.

«I truly believe that we have made changes that will greatly improve the life chances of the most disadvantaged people in this country and increase their opportunities to thrive.

Next year, NCB will be celebrating an important anniversary — 50 years of working in partnership to improve the life chances of children and young people.

While orthodox economic growth can clearly improve life chances in the context of a low level of material development, not least if accompanied by explicitly pro-poor and distributive policies, there comes a point beyond which the continued pursuit of such growth begins to undermine human flourishing.

New legislation will be introduced to tackle some of the deepest social problems in society, and improve life chances.

«Councils have to be able to use every tool that is available to them to improve life chances for their children,» she told delegates.

Few health behaviours have such a broad - spectrum and long - lasting impact on population health, with the potential to improve life chances, health and well - being.

Today is all about demonstrating that we're actually doing that, that while we have a debate across our nation about Europe, we're also getting on with delivering what we were elected on a year ago - a manifesto committed to improving life chances to those from deprived backgrounds.»

While the work and pensions secretary was delivering a speech to the Centre for Social Justice on how he is improving the life chances of vulnerable people, some of the those affected by his cuts to ESA took to Twitter to express their dismay at the Commons vote.

Developing the skills and knowledge of the school workforce through this partnership, Carnegie School of Education aims to make a major contribution to improving the life chances of children and young people regionally and nationally.»

Improving life chances for young people with SEND was a core ambition of the SEND reforms.

If we had the political will to create high schools like these across the nation, what lessons about improving the life chances of low - income teen - agers might we take from the New York City decade - long experience with small schools of choice?

There would be much to do, but few jobs in government are as important, or as rewarding, as education secretary: it is a role that requires energy, imagination, and a commitment to improving the life chances of all our children, regardless of background.

The Local Government Association says 91 % of council maintained schools are rated good or outstanding by education watchdog Ofsted - so they should be allowed «to play a direct role in raising education standards and improving life chances, including taking on the running of failing academies».

The announcement comes on the day the National Audit Office highlights the pupil premium - extra funding given to schools to help disadvantaged pupils fulfil their potential - has led to schools dramatically improving their focus on improving the life chances of disadvantaged pupils.

Here's where the feds could play a significant role in improving the life chances of so many of our inner city kids.

«With the new prime minister in her first speech making a commitment to improving life chances, this research is timely and indicates the mountain to climb in terms of the gap between disadvantaged pupils and the rest of pupils.»

Your overall goals should be to show how your initiatives improved the life chances of your pupils.

What could be more rewarding than improving the life chances of children and helping families to live happy and fulfilling lives?

He is a very active grandparent, with direct experience of providing childcare, and is committed to improving the life chances of children through collaboration and teamwork.

Such impacts will greatly effect the government's commitment to reconciliation and improving the life chances of Indigenous peoples.

I am very grateful for the commitment that so many people show to improving adoption services and improving the life chances of some of the most vulnerable children in the country.

The Government is extending the entitlement to free early education to these children in recognition of the difficult start in life they have endured and the real benefit early exposure to high quality early education can have in improving their life chances.