23/09/2025 Today we publish a landmark report into special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and early literacy. Our report finds that the use of systematic early reading support is instrumental in improving the literacy skills for both pupils with SEND and without but, crucially, we also found that introducing it early in KS1 to all low performing pupils ensures that … Read More
White working-class pupils and literacy: the data
28/08/2025 Every year, exam results show that white working-class children are among the lowest-achieving groups in England’s schools. Too often, the debate stops at the statistics. At the Fischer Family Foundation, we believe the conversation must go further – to evidence and to solutions. That is why we have analysed constituency-level data on child poverty and Key Stage 2 reading … Read More