As you may have read in the papers recently, the Government’s poverty adviser is proposing that the school summer holiday should be shortened in a bid to improve the prospects of poorer pupils.  Frank Field, who is heading an independent review into UK poverty that will report to the government said disadvantaged children fall further behind during long summer holidays because they are not being read to and tutored and as such, called for the school year to be broken into four or five terms with shorter holidays to help poorer pupils who do not receive support at home. (more…)