Every Child A Chance
Amid
the hubbub of Budget day in Number
Ten Downing Street were seventeen
children and their parents from across
the country.
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the story here
Kaplan Employees to
climb 2,600 miles to give children
a £12,000 start in life.
Kaplan
Professional UK, the leading provider
of training for professional qualifications
and business programmes, is rising
to the challenge of donating a minimum
of £12,000 to the Every
Child a Chance Trust.
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New data published today (June 2nd)
shows that in the second term of the
Every Child Counts programme, children
have made an average of 15 months progress
over three months with just 20 hours
tuition. This means they are progressing
at five times the expected rate.
The Every Child Counts programme is aimed
at year 2 primary pupils who have fallen
behind their peers. The programme aims to
enable the lowest attaining children to make
sufficient progress to reach expected levels
of attainment at Key Stage 1 and beyond.
It provides training and support for teachers
so they can work with pupils in one-to-one
and/or small group intervention sessions.
Pupils receive daily intervention sessions
for approximately a term.
Every Child Counts is in the first year of
a two-year development phase before rolling
out nationally in 2010-11. By this stage
the programme aims to support approximately
30,000 children a year. The Government is
working in partnership with the Every Child
a Chance Trust in planning, developing and
delivering the programme.
Numbers Count Impact Summary
The Numbers Count impact summary for the
period January to April 2009 reports on outcomes
from the second term of the new Numbers Count
intervention. Numbers Count forms the core
part of the two year developmental phase
of the Every Child Counts programme. ·
- 822 children received Numbers Count support in 210 schools and across 26 Local Authorities.
- Children received an average of 41 half-hour one-to-one lessons over a 13-week period.
- They moved from an average initial ‘Number Age’ of 5 years 10 months on entry to 7 years 1 month on exit, making 15 months of progress.
- They made an average gain of 17 standardised score points.
- On a survey of their confidence and attitudes towards mathematics, they moved from an average initial total score of 50 to a score of 61 at the end of their programmes, making an average gain of 22%
Download the report here NC impact summary Jan to April 09 (PDF 36Kb)
Innumerate
Schoolchildren Cost The Taxpayer Up
To £2.4 Bn A Year
See press release
Long term costs of numeracy
Download the report
January 2009 (PDF 1.46 MB)
The Every Child a Chance Trust aims to unlock the educational potential of socially disadvantaged children through the development and promotion of evidence-based, early intervention programmes.
The Trust was established in 2007. It grew out of the outstandingly successful Every Child a Reader project , which showed that with the right intervention it is possible to tackle the literacy difficulties which blight many children’s lives This three-year £10m scheme, now being rolled out nationally, was funded by a partnership of businesses and charitable trusts with matched funding from government.
The Trust was established to build on the power of this partnership, to transform the lives of individuals, document the long-term impact of early interventions on communities and prove the economic case for early investment – and as a result secure pick up of the charity’s programmes at a national and local level.
Every Child a Chance is pro-active in seeking projects to fund and regrets that it is not in a position to respond to unsolicited grant applications.
