Nursery World - Charity calls for action to reduce attainment gap between Scotland's richest and poorest children

A new report calls for more focused interventions to close the attainment gap between children from high and low-income households.

The report - ‘Closing the attainment gap in Scottish education’ - by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) looks at attempts that have been made to tackle the gap between children from high and low-income households, and makes recommendations for educators and policy-makers about what is likely to work.

According to the JRF, existing research shows that the attainment gap between Scotland’s richest and poorest children begins in pre-school and continues throughout primary and secondary school.

By the age of five, there is an attainment gap of 10 months in problem solving development between children from low-income and high-income households and a 13-month gap in vocabulary.

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