Left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds

Inquiry by the Education Committee, 17 April 2020 to 11 January 2022. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

First Report - The forgotten: how White working-class pupils have been let down, and how to change it (22 June 2021)
The forgotten: how White working-class pupils have been let down, and how to change it - Government response to the Committee’s First Report (4 November 2021)

Evidence sessions

: witnesses not listed
13 October 2020: Professor Lee Elliot Major, University of Exeter; Professor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent; Professor Diane Reay, University of Cambridge
13 October 2020: Mary Curnock Cook OBE; Professor Becky Francis, Education Endowment Foundation; Dr Sam Baars, The Centre for Education and Youth
3 November 2020: Henri Murison, Northern Powerhouse Partnership; Sammy Wright, Social Mobility Commission; Dr Alex Gibson, University of Plymouth
3 November 2020: Jonathan Douglas, National Literacy Trust; Ed Vainker, Reach Academy
17 November 2020: Helena Mills CBE, BMAT Education; Nick Hurn OBE, Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust; Clementine Stewart, Langford Primary School; Claire-Marie Cuthbert, Evolve Trust; Andrew Smith, Learning Pathways Academy; Ruth Robinson, Swindon and Nova Hreod Academies
3 December 2020: Edward Davies, Centre for Social Justice; Matt Leach, The Local Trust; Miriam Jordan Keane, The National Citizen Service; Katie Sullivan, Regenerate UK; Suzanne Wilson, University of Central Lancashire
7 January 2021: Professor Liz Barnes, Staffordshire University; Chris Millward, Office for Students; Rae Tooth, Villiers Park Educational Trust; Dr Graeme Atherton, The National Education Opportunities Network (NEON); Karen Spencer MBE, Harlow College
26 January 2021: Dr. Javed Khan, Barnardo’s; Merle Davies, Blackpool Centre for Early Child Development; Sonia Shaljean, Lads need Dads; Louisa Reeves, I CAN; Claire Smith, Halton Borough Council
9 February 2021: Rt Hon. Nick Gibb MP, Department for Education; Vicky Ford MP, Department for Education