Fair Education in 2024:

Priorities for a New Government

Strong education outcomes for children from all backgrounds are essential to taking on the world’s biggest challenges. In 2024 education outcomes remain deeply correlated with socioeconomic background and many children are not provided opportunities to fulfil their potential.

Following the result of the General Election and the news that Keir Starmer and the Labour Party has formed a new Government, we published Fair Education in 2024: Priorities for a New Government.

In this report we outline our Fair Education Priorities, which provide policy recommendations that would tackle both the causes and the symptoms of educational inequality and ensure that no child’s access to high quality education is restricted due to the income of their parents, the colour of their skin, their SEND status, the area they live in or which school they go to.

Our Fair Education Priorities:

As the new Government takes shape and policies are formed, we’re uniting behind these key priorities, built on the collective knowledge and expertise of our members.

We know that this is just a starting point. While we were encouraged by many of Labour’s Manifesto commitments, we face significant challenges and there is so much work for all of us to do to tackle educational inequality. We believe that the solutions we’ve outlined will bring us closer to a world in which no child’s success is limited by their socioeconomic background.