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Invest £1bn towards closing the school attainment gap by 2026
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SNP Manifesto 2021, p.114We will now build on progress to close the poverty-related attainment gap by: investing £1 billion over the next parliament in measures to recover from Covid, improve attainment and close the attainment gap...
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This promise is in progress. In June 2021, the Scottish Government announced that £215m would be distributed across five Scottish Attainment Challenge programmes in 2021/2022. The administration described this as the first instalment in a £1bn Attainment Scotland Fund to be distributed over the course of this parliamentary session. A further £200m for 2022-2023 was announced in November 2021.
“£15 million to improve attainment” (Scottish Government, 19th June 2021)
“Closing the attainment gap” (Scottish Government, 23rd November 2021)