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Every child achieving and thriving: Attendance
• What is the experience of those outside mainstream education (whether being home schooled, excluded from school, in Alternative Provision, attending special schools or Young Offender Institutions) and their parents? Where relevant: how and when could/should these children be helped back into mainstream education?
Department for Education, 2025
truancy
school belonging
educational outcomes
social mobility
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Every child achieving and thriving: Attendance
• What types of practice and/or interventions (including both by schools and other parties such as local authorities), work to prevent or reduce the different types of absence (including low-level, persistent and severe absence) and how do they affect other outcomes (including wellbeing)?• What conditions need to be in place for schools and/or local authorities to effectively implement these interventions?
Department for Education, 2025
attendance
local authorities
wellbeing
truancy
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Every child achieving and thriving: Attendance
• What factors influence parental attitudes to school attendance and what can we do to address them?
Department for Education, 2025
community engagement
education policy
school attendance
parental engagement
truancy
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Every child achieving and thriving: Attendance
• What (individual, school and wider) factors contribute to different types of absences (low-level, persistent, and severe)? Are there significant differences in the root causes of these various types, or differences by age?
Department for Education, 2025
attendance
health and wellbeing
truancy
school belonging
parental engagement
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Every child achieving and thriving: Attendance
What works best to ensure high levels of school attendance, when, where, with whom and why?
Department for Education, 2025
engagement
school attendance
wellbeing
parental engagement
school belonging
truancy
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Every child achieving and thriving: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
• How can we improve outcomes for those [pupils/students] who need a specialist placement, preparing them to be as independent and prepared for adulthood as possible? What do the best special schools do that could be replicated elsewhere, including in mainstream provision?
Department for Education, 2025
special educational needs
special schools
special colleges
educational outcomes
independent living
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Every child achieving and thriving: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
• How can schools effectively monitor and evaluate the impact of provision they make for children with SEND? How should progress and attainment be assessed for those with different types of SEND?
Department for Education, 2025
special educational needs
attainment
teaching quality
educational outcomes
school performance
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Every child achieving and thriving: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
• When and how should targeted and specialist support – including SENCOs, other specialist professionals, specialist units and special schools – be employed [in education]? What is/should be the role of in-school support units in supporting children and inclusive education?
Department for Education, 2025
inclusion
special educational needs
support services
special schools
teachers
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Every child achieving and thriving: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
• What are the barriers to learning experienced by children with SEND, and what universal and targeted strategies and interventions are effective in helping them overcome these barriers? How do they vary depending on type of SEND?
Department for Education, 2025
learning barriers
special educational needs
inclusion
teaching practices
school management
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Every child achieving and thriving: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
• What are the elements that need to be in place or adaptions that need to be made to mainstream schools and teaching practice to make education settings inclusive to children with different types of SEND (at the child, school, and system level?)
Department for Education, 2025
inclusion
school systems
special educational needs
teaching practices
neurodiversity
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Every child achieving and thriving: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
• What differences in support are needed across different educational settings (including early years, colleges, and Alternative Provision) to ensure the best support for learners with SEND to thrive and achieve? What support can be universal, and which support needs to be targeted?
Department for Education, 2025
early years
special schools
inclusion
childcare
neurodiversity
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Every child achieving and thriving: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
• Are there different developmental trajectories of cognitive, emotional, and social skills for different types of SEND, and if so, what does this mean for classroom pedagogical practice?
Department for Education, 2025
special educational needs and disabilities
cognitive science
social skills
emotional skills
child development
teaching practices
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Every child achieving and thriving: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
What teaching approaches, particularly through inclusion in mainstream education, would better support children with different types of Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND) to achieve and thrive?
Department for Education, 2025
inclusion
wellbeing
special educational needs and disabilities
neurodiversity
neurodevelopmental disorders
teaching practices
attainment
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Every child achieving and thriving: Achieving
What teaching approaches and learning environments are most effective in helping children to concentrate, grasp new ideas, develop skill (such as writing), retain knowledge, transfer knowledge, and be motivated to learn? • How do these things vary for different groups, such as students with SEND, disadvantaged children and for different age groups? Why are these approaches most effective and how can we scale them up?
Department for Education, 2025
built environment
child development
learning technologies
knowledge transfer
skills development
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Every child achieving and thriving: Attainment
• How can schools best work with parents and carers to help their children to arrive each day ready to learn, to get the most from each school day and support their learning outside school?
Department for Education, 2025
wellbeing
learning barriers
wrap-around care
home learning
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Every child achieving and thriving: Attainment
• How can we better understand the link between governance and school performance (including both achieving and thriving)? How can we improve the diversity of governing bodies?
Department for Education, 2025
governance
school performance
school governors
workforce characteristics
geography
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Every child achieving and thriving: Attainment
• How can we ensure that supporting organisations and policies (such as Multi-academy trusts and Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence teams) enable schools to improve?
Department for Education, 2025
school management
school leadership
school trust
school performance
school support
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Every child achieving and thriving: Attainment
• What are the most cost-effective approaches to raise the performance of under-performing (educational) settings?
Department for Education, 2025
cost-effectiveness
school performance
school support
governance
systems approaches
workforce
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Every child achieving and thriving: Attainment
• How can we limit administration to enable a focus on teaching and supporting children? (See also the section on Technology).
Department for Education, 2025
support services
teaching
technology
governance
assessment
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Every child achieving and thriving: Attainment
• Which approaches to school leadership, management and governance help create the right environment for all children to learn, and how can they be more widely embedded?
Department for Education, 2025
governance
school leadership
leadership
school performance
school effectiveness
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