According to the Closing the Gap report published by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) today, between 2007 and 2016, the disadvantage gap by the end of primary school narrowed by 2.8 months and the gap by age five narrowed by 1.2 months.
While it finds there has been some small improvement in closing the gap, is says it is taking far too long. The EPI warns that if we carry on at this pace, at least a further three generations will be lost before 'equality of outcomes is realised through the education system.'
The report examines how well early years settings and schools are serving disadvantaged children by measuring the gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.
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