financial support and the cost of education

• Bull:

  • 'cost of free schooling'
• Tanner et al:

  • the cost of items such as transport, uniform, books, computers, calculators, and sports, music and art equipment, place a heavy burden on poor families.
• Flaherty:

  • fear of stigmatisation may also help to explain why 20% of those eligible for free school meals do not take up their entitlement.
• Smith and Noble:

  • poverty acts as a barrier to learning in other ways, such as inability to afford private schooling or tuition, and poorer quality local schools.
• Ridge:

  • children in poverty take on jobs such as babysitting, cleaning and paper rounds, and this often had a negative impact on their schoolwork.