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<p>This Government is committed to action that improves long-term outcomes for children
and families by focusing on tackling the root causes of poverty and disadvantage.
The four ‘Life Chances’ measures introduced through the Welfare Reform and Work Act
2016, which replaced the income based targets set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010,
are designed to drive action and measure progress in the areas that we know can make
the biggest difference - parental worklessness and children’s educational achievement.</p><p>The
measures are based on official statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics
on the proportion of children in workless households and the proportion of children
in long-term workless households; and on Department for Education statistics on the
educational attainment at Key Stage 4 of all pupils, and of disadvantaged pupils.</p><p>Although
these statistics do not <ins class="ministerial">all<ins class="ministerial"> </ins></ins>provide
data for individual constituencies, local authority-level data is available for the
measure of all children in workless households and for both the educational attainment
measures.</p><p>In 2016, 21.4 per cent of children were in workless households in
Wolverhampton local authority. This compares to 27.2 per cent in 2010.</p><p>Source:</p><p><a
href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/bulletins/worklesshouseholdsforregionsacrosstheuk/2016"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/bulletins/worklesshouseholdsforregionsacrosstheuk/2016</a></p><p>In
2017, pupils sat reformed GCSEs in English language, English literature and maths
for the first time, graded on a 9 to 1 scale. 35.6 per cent of all pupils and 22.8
per cent of disadvantaged pupils in the Wolverhampton local authority area achieved
9-5 in English and maths.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">GCSE outcomes by constituency
are available for all pupils but not broken down by disadvantaged pupils. In 2017,
28.3 per cent of all pupils in the Wolverhampton North East constituency achieved
9-5 in English and maths.</ins></p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2016-to-2017"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2016-to-2017</a></p>
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