KEY SOCIAL POILICIES TO REMEMBER

Question 1

1944 tripartite system:

WHAT WAS IT?

Answer 1

• introduced 3 types of schools
• grammar, secondary modern and technical
• aimed to provide separate but equal types of schooling
• determined by the 11+
• 75% secondary modern, 20% grammar and 5% technical

Question 2

1944 tripartite system:

WAS THE POLICY SUCCESSFUL?

Answer 2

• no as 75% of children were being failed at 11
• no parity of esteem as grammar school seen as superior
• increased social class divisions
• labelling & self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 3

comprehensive act 1965:

WHAT WAS IT?

Answer 3

• combined secondary modern, grammar and technical schools
• mixed ability

Question 4

comprehensive act 1965:

WAS THE POLICY SUCCESSFUL?

Answer 4

• WC students started to do better
• 80% schools comps by 1979
• class divisions remained
• streaming & setting - WC children in lower sets
• catchment areas meant that different areas produced different results

Question 5

education action zones 1998 new labour:

WHAT WAS IT?

Answer 5

deprived areas given more funding

Question 6

education action zones 1998 new labour:

WAS THE POLICY SUCCESSFUL?

Answer 6

• attracted limited sponsorship
• disappointing improvements
• not continued after its initial 5 year term

Question 7

EMA payments 2004 new labour:

WHAT WAS IT?

Answer 7

• education matienence allowance
• college students from lower income families given £30 a week to spend on whatever they like
• money reduced if unknown absence
• £100 bonus if full attendance

Question 8

EMA payments 2004 new labour:

WAS THE POLICY SUCCESSFUL?

Answer 8

• increased post 16 education and reduced youth crime
• not known if it increased grades and achievement
• too expensive
• made teenagers under 18 legally stay in education so government don’t have to pay them anymore

Question 9

sure start programme 1998 new labour:

WHAT WAS IT?

Answer 9

under 5 interventions to help younger families

Question 10

sure start programme 1998 new labour:

WAS THE POLICY SUCCESSFUL?

Answer 10

• helped lower young peoples hospital admissions
• wasn’t given long enough to run

Question 11

aim higher programme 2004:

WHAT WAS IT?

Answer 11

for pupils whose parents had not been to uni

Question 12

aim higher programme 2004:

WAS THE POLICY SUCCESSFUL?

Answer 12

• met its target in helping with costs and getting their target groups into higher education
• raised uni aspirations
• if your parent has gone to uni you are 70% more likely to go yourself so some people needed extra support