High-performing schools in England ‘should be encouraged to admit more white working-class pupils’

Report says once-in-a-generation changes needed to tackle why such children are lowest-performing large demographic

High-performing primary and secondary schools in England should be encouraged to admit more disadvantaged pupils from white working-class backgrounds to help reverse a continuing crisis in underachievement, an independent inquiry has said.

The independent inquiry into white working-class educational outcomes concluded the current education system was “not set up to serve white working-class children and families”.