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 (web link to the Every Child a Trust – Every Child a Reader page under Literacy projects).
The Every Child Counts Programme
Every Child Counts is a partnership initiative between the Every Child a Chance Trust and government.
What it aims to do
- develop a highly effective numeracy intervention for young children with the greatest difficulties, to 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;
- 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 will be 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
- 2621 children taught in the first year of the new Numbers Count programme made on average 13.5 months progress on a standardised test of early numeracy, in just over 20 hours of 1-1- teaching over a three month period – that is, nearly five times the ‘normal’ rate of progress
- Their average standardised score gain was 15 points, taking them from the below average into the average range of attainment
- The children showed substantial (21%) gains in attitudes to learning and mathematics, as rated by themselves, their teachers and their parents
- Children exiting the programme in January and April 2009 continued to make an above average rate of progress over the next three – six months
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/
