The bulk of money from the Children’s Fund is, as expected, to be targeted at areas of greatest deprivation.Forty areas across England will benefit from the first 380 million of a 450 million pound three year fund announced in the last spending review. Once again the aim is to encourage public and voluntary sector agencies to join-up to fill the gaps in current provision, this time with local councils taking the lead.
New research from a left-leaning think tank suggests that the private sector has failed to play a full partnership role in supporting the Government’s Education Action Zones (EAZs) initiative.Introduced in 1997, EAZs were promoted as a radical way of tackling low levels of educational attainment in some of Britain’s most deprived areas.
