Parsons, Samantha;
Fitzsimons, Emla;
Schoon, ingrid;
(2022)
Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Educational progression of children of care leavers compared to other children in a general population sample.
(CLS Working Papers
2022/7).
UCL, Centre for Longitudinal Studies: London, UK.
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Abstract
There is persistent evidence showing that care-leavers tend to have lower educational outcomes compared to their peers. There is however less knowledge if this educational disadvantage transfers to the second generation. This study adopts a developmental contextual life course approach to examine a) the extent of educational inequality of children of care-leavers from school entry to public examinations at age 16; b) the relative role of different psychosocial family resources as predictors of educational attainment; and c) the role of early school readiness assessments as predictors of later educational attainment. Drawing on data collected from families living in England at the first sweep of the nationally representative UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) (n=11,514), the findings suggest intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage among children of care-leavers (n=287), which are manifest in a direct assessment of school readiness (age 3), at the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) (age 5) and in General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) attainment (age 16). However, once inequalities in family socio-economic background or area deprivation and housing are controlled for, children of care-leavers perform comparably in their educational progression to those whose parents had no experience of being in care (n=11,227). Moreover, the findings highlight the significance of early school readiness assessments in predicting later educational attainment for the whole sample. Findings are discussed regarding their implications for policy, in particular the need to address educational inequality for children in care, area allocation and housing that is offered to care-leavers, and the general importance of early interventions.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Educational progression of children of care leavers compared to other children in a general population sample |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/C... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Children of care-leavers, educational disadvantag, early years, GCSEs |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10157853 |
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