Finances

• Not enough financial support for those from poor backgrounds

  • Inability to afford equipment, transport or clothes (‘the cost of free schooling’ Bull 1980, Tanner et al 2003)

Flaherty

• 20% of families don’t take up FSM entitlement

Ridge

• W/c children have to work during their schooling to be able to afford equipment etc

Smith and Noble (1995)

• W/c students cannot afford private tuition and also go to worse schools, which further exacerbates the educational inequalities they face

Callender and Jackson (2005)

• W/c students 5x less likely to go to Uni due to fear of debt and other expenses

• 2012

  • 33% FSM students achieved 5 or more A*-C GCSEs

  • 61% of non-FSM students achieved 5 or more A*-C GCSEs

• 60% of LIF turn off heating in the winter to save money

• Low-income parents 2x more likely to split up than higher-income parents, further exacerbating financial strain and increasing the risk of material deprivation for their children

• Credit interest and higher fuel charges (one-time usage) costs poor families an extra £1,280/year