GCSE Maths and English: Children In The Care Of Social Service To Fail More
Students in the care of social services in England (UK), according to latest research and statistics are much likely to fail their GCSE Maths and English examination.
General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an examination in England that determines the College or University one will go to.
Per the research and analysis, analysts did this research on one point six million (1.6m) results from students who had already taken the GCSE.
According to this analysis and research, it was found out that students who are in care of social service or had been taken into the care of social service were not able to attain the pass mark, thus grade 4 pass in both Maths and English.
The percentage of students found out not to pass the GCSE examination was 53%.
Also, they made mention of ‘worrying attainment gap’ which means 24% of the students out of 1.6 million students upon analysis failed to attain a level 4 in both of the subjects. This analysis was done by the data consultants FFT Education DataLab together with the Children’s Charity Action.
To estimate, the number of students who are referred to social care each year in England stands around 318,000. This is because members of their family are having difficulties being financial, abuse of the student, or even neglecting of the student and this is very alarming.
These statistics were disclosed by the head of policy and research at Action for Children, Joe Lane. He made mention of the poor performance in the Maths and English in the GCSE results.
He again demanded that political parties should tackle the root cause of the high number of students being sent to social care each year and that will help their talks on ‘Addressing Poor Attainment’.
It was also revealed that the government will be investing a huge sum of £16.6m each year for two years in order for head teachers in the various schools to support students in need.
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