Every Child Counts

Every Child Counts is a partnership initiative between the Every Child a Chance Trust and government.

First Year Results New data shows that in the first year of the Every Child Counts programme, children have made an average of 13.5 months progress over three months with just 20 hours tuition. This means they are progressing at over four times the expected rate. On entry to the programme none of these children were predicted by their schools to reach nationally expected levels in their age seven (end of Key Stage 1) maths assessments, but nearly three quarters achieved or exceeded this level.

Read the full report here: Every Child Counts: the results of the first year
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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 children in one-to-one and/or small group intervention sessions. Pupils receive daily intervention sessions for approximately twelve weeks.

Every Child Counts is now in the second 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.

The programme aims to:

develop a highly effective numeracy intervention for young children with the greatest difficulties in mathematics, that will enable them achieve nationally expected attainment levels by the time they are seven
develop a national infrastructure capable of providing ongoing professional development, quality assurance and data collection for the intervention
ensure that teachers trained in the intervention can support tailored mathematics teaching more broadly within a school, with an impact beyond the children they are directly teaching
secure widespread understanding of the importance of early intervention in mathematics in the education world and beyond

Results so far for Every Child Counts are based on the entry and exit data routinely input by teachers at the beginning and end of every child’s one-to-one teaching programme. They show that children make excellent progress. They do not, however, compare this progress with that made by similar children who have not had the benefit of the programme. A full external evaluation has been commissioned to provide this type of data. The Universities of York and Durham will conduct a randomised controlled trial in the 2009/10 school year, comparing children who have taken part in the programme with those on the waiting list to receive help.

Downloads

Numbers Count Impact report - 2008/9
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Innumerate Schoolchildren Cost The Taxpayer Up To £2.4 Bn A Year
See press release.

Long term costs of numeracy
January 2009 (PDF 1.46 Mb: opens in new window)

ECC Newsletter
September 2009 (PDF 442kb: opens in a new window)

One-on-one plus fun adds up to 'stunning' progress in maths
April 2009 (PDF 21kb: opens in new window)

'Remarkable' improvement for girl who never used to like maths
April 2009 (PDF 53kb: opens in new window)

Report of ECC Research Group – Summer term 2008
August 2008 (PDF 292kb: opens in new window)

Report on Research Phase of Every Child Counts – Summer term 2008
August 2008 (PDF 137kb: opens in new window)