Parental engagement in education fund opens

Deadline for applications 5 December 2014

When starting school, children from the poorest backgrounds are 19 months behind their most affluent peers of the same age in development of vocabulary. Studies have shown this attainment gap between pupils eligible for free school meals and all other pupils persists through school. At age eleven the gap between Free School Meals pupils and their peers stood at 19% in reading, writing and mathematics in 2013.

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Sutton Trust have launched a £1 million Parental Engagement Fund to support organisations to develop methods of working with parents to bridge this attainment gap in the early and primary school years.

New parental engagement in education fund opens, deadline for applications 5 Dec. For projs aimed at 2-6 yr olds from disadvantaged backgrounds www.suttontrust.com/programmes/parental-engagement-fund/

Sutton Trust – Parental Engagement Fund
www.suttontrust.com
The £1 million Fund is looking to support the growth, increased effectiveness and measurement of impact of projects, led by not- for- profit organisations, aimed at improving children’s cognitive development through actively engaging parents in their children’s learning. It will be looking for proje…