Sentences with phrase «key areas of disadvantage»

The Commission believes that the Government should continue to support this project, as a major component of their strategy to improving economic development outcomes for Indigenous people and closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in key areas of disadvantage.

Not exact matches

Additionally, Northamptonshire is one of the worst - performing local authority areas in the country for the achievement of disadvantaged children at Key Stage 2, and Derby and Nottingham were among the 10 lowest ranking local authority areas nationally for GSCE examinations.

«Our Social Mobility Action Plan set out measures to drive improvements in key skills including numeracy, targets areas that need the most support through our # 72 million Opportunity Areas programme and builds on the almost # 2.5 billion we provide each year to schools to help raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.&rareas that need the most support through our # 72 million Opportunity Areas programme and builds on the almost # 2.5 billion we provide each year to schools to help raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.&rAreas programme and builds on the almost # 2.5 billion we provide each year to schools to help raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.»

Supporting schools to meet the needs of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds is one of the key aims of the National Education Trust and we have a long established record of impact in this area.

Gary Banks, on the release of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2005, [14] commented on the mixed results in the report and identified «areas of regression».

[t] he government came to office with a firm commitment to address the unacceptable level of disadvantage suffered by Australia's Indigenous people, particularly in the key socio - economic areas of health, housing education and employment»; [27]

Congress now offers some key social and preventive programs in the area of early childhood, which is arguably the most critical area that needs to be focused on to address intergenerational disadvantage.

COAG agreed the importance of significantly closing the gap in outcomes between Indigenous people and other Australians in key areas for action as identified in the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators Report (OID) released by COAG in 20key areas for action as identified in the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators Report (OID) released by COAG in 20Key Indicators Report (OID) released by COAG in 2003.

Upon its election in 1996, the Howard government indicated that it would not provide an additional package of measures to address the consequences of dispossession, but would instead focus on redressing Indigenous disadvantage in the key priority areas of health, housing, education and employment.

«Practical reconciliation» emphasises the importance of addressing Indigenous disadvantage in key areas of health, housing, employment and education.

It recommends in particular that decisive steps be taken in order to ensure that a sufficient number of health professionals provide services to Indigenous peoples, and that the State party set up benchmarks for monitoring progress in key areas of Indigenous disadvantage.198

While area - based initiatives of this sort have significant potential to improve outcomes at key developmental time points and thereby to equalise the life changes of disadvantaged children, they require significant investment and no further attempts to implement such initiatives have been made in the UK until the recent A Better Start (ABS) initiative.

[70] In April 2002, COAG commissioned the Productivity Commission's Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth / State Service Provision to produce a regular report against key indicators of Indigenous disadvantage, with a focus on areas where governments can make a difference.