Poorer kids in Wales doing worse in school than poorer kids in England.

What is going on? Are we failing kids in Wales compared to England? What explains this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62182407

Child poverty rate in Wales also rising but falling in England. Why?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...k-24469194.amp

Warnings on this in 2007
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...behind-2241844

and from 2011
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/l...nglish-1819363

Wales is probably performing pretty similarly to *similar* parts of England, in all of these measures.

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Originally Posted by Rjk

Wales is probably performing pretty similarly to *similar* parts of England, in all of these measures.

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Well, it says that poorer kids in Wales are worse off than comparative kids in England.

Why is that? Do we mind?

Look at the definition of poverty there. It's not going down in reality.