Equal Education has teamed up with ImpactEd to assess the impact of its Autumn 2020 tuition programme for Looked After Children - initial findings are encouraging with marked improvement in pupil confidence.

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Community lead Harvest discusses Equal Education’s first virtual tutor training series on Trauma and Attachment Awareness. (Image by Jo Szczepanska via Unsplash)

Equal Education and Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation (“Royal SpringBoard”) are working together to provide 1:1 online tuition for a number of looked-after children due to start new boarding school placements this Autumn.

We welcome catch-up measures introduced today and will build on our existing partnerships with Local Authorities to develop and deliver schools-based individualised tuition learning programmes to reach more disadvantaged young people and improve outcomes.

PRESS RELEASE: Equal Education has won a £50,000 grant from Innovate UK to provide managed devices for Looked After Children so that they can participate in online learning. With these new devices, the company aims to help close the "Digital Divide" and reduce the "Attainment Gap".

Equal Education is the only organisation that specialises in providing tailored tutoring to LAC and SEND. We are now the only education services supplier with an extensive relationship with Apple to provide secured devices suitable for our learners.

The Department for Education has released the latest outcomes data for Looked After Children in England and we are keen to share its findings….