Every Child Counts
The grant recipient
The Every Child a Chance Trust aims to unlock the educational potential of socially disadvantaged children through the development and promotion of evidence-based, early intervention programmes. It was established in 2007 following the enormous success of the Every Child a Reader project.
The Every Child Counts programme
What it aims to do
Every Child Counts aims to:
- develop a highly effective numeracy intervention for young children with the greatest difficulties in mathematics, that will enable them to achieve nationally expected attainment levels by the time they are seven
- develop a national infrastructure capable of providing ongoing professional development, quality assurance and data collection for the intervention
- ensure that teachers trained in the intervention can support tailored mathematics teaching more broadly within a school, with an impact beyond the children they are directly teaching
- secure widespread understanding of the importance of early intervention in mathematics in the education world and beyond
How it works
The Every Child Counts project is based on the Every Child a Reader model - funding and training teachers in inner-city schools to provide intensive help to children with learning difficulties
Latest results
Findings from a one-year research phase, within which 50 schools trialled a range of existing approaches: 73% of the 200 children involved in these trials reached the nationally expected level for their age after an average of 14 hours of one to one teaching. None of these children had been predicted by their schools as likely to reach this level.
The funding
SHINE made a founding sponsorship grant for the Every Child Counts project. Other funding is provided by the KPMG Foundation, DCSF and other trusts and foundations.
Funding: £90,000 to the Every Child a Chance Trust, over one year (2008-09)
Visit the Every Child a Chance Trust website: http://www.everychildachancetrust.org/
