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Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2022-02-26): Public expenditure on pre-primary and primary education in Northern Ireland is least per child (£3,440; UK average: £4,316) and per head of population (£416; UK average: £473). Meanwhile, Northern Ireland has the second highest level of expenditure on overall education per head of population (£1,453); the situation is better explained by the amount spent per head on education subsidies and n.e.c. categories (£257; UK average: £102). On Tuesday 13th March during an interview conducted on BBC Radio Ulster Evening Extra, Corinne Latham, principal of Seaview Primary School in North Belfast, claimed: "For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom." [...] At face value, Latham’s claim is correct; primary aged children in Northern Ireland receive less direct education expenditure than their counterparts in the rest of the UK.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2022-12-08): Most children in Northern Ireland attend pre-school for one year before starting primary school. Government funds a pre-school place for every child whose family want it but it is not compulsory for children to attend pre-school. Children then start primary school aged 4 or 5. [...] The School Age (Northern Ireland) Act 2022 allows the parents/ guardians of Young for Year children to defer the start of pre-school and, in turn, primary school for their child for one year. If the child defers prior to starting pre-school, they will then start pre-school in September following their 4th birthday and primary school in September following their 5th birthday.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2023-05-16): The vast majority of pupils in Northern Ireland were out of school for extended periods in 2020 and early 2021 due to lockdown restrictions. [...] Although pupils in Northern Ireland were good at reading, only just more than a quarter said they liked it "very much" - which was much lower than many other countries. [...] Funding for education was cut in the recent Stormont budget from Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2023-04-04): The divided education and school system in Northern Ireland costs £226m extra a year to the public purse, new research claims. [...] Northern Ireland's school system is largely made up of Catholic maintained or controlled schools. [...] But only about 8% of pupils in Northern Ireland are taught in formally integrated schools, which seek to mix children from Catholic, Protestant and other backgrounds.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2023-03-16): Northern Ireland has one of the youngest primary school starting ages in Europe. Most children start school in September of the school year after their fourth birthday, but those whose birthdays fall between 2 July and 31 August usually start in the September after their fifth birthday. [...] Northern Ireland’s Department of Education wants to allow flexibility in the school starting age for children born between 1 April and 1 July. The proposed change to legislation would mean children not reaching compulsory school-starting age until 1 September after their fifth birthday. [...] The DfE is now bringing forward a bill to change the law on school starting age in Northern Ireland, although time is limited given that the next Stormont election is due to take place in May.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2023-04-07): However, most of the North’s schools remain split into two categories - "Maintained" schools which have links to the Catholic Church and mainly cater for Catholic pupils, and "Controlled" schools which are state-run and mainly cater to Protestant students. [...] Gráinne Clarke, from the Integrated Education Fund (IEF), a charity set up in 1992 to support the growth of the sector in Northern Ireland, said "in many ways parents and society are much further ahead than our politicians". [...] According to the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education, which promotes the development of integrated education, integrated schools should aspire to an annual intake of at least 40 per cent of Catholic pupils and the same for Protestant pupils.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2022-01-20): Northern Ireland has one of the youngest primary school starting ages in Europe. [...] Most children in Northern Ireland start school in September of the school year after their fourth birthday. [...] Mr Sheehan also asked if the department had taken a closer look at when all children in Northern Ireland started formal education.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2020-10-12): Northern Ireland’s school system is perceived by many as high performing, with the most recent report from the Chief Inspector of the Education and Training Inspectorate highlighting how the system ‘continues to work very well for tens of thousands of learners’. However, the report also acknowledges that ‘too many students are left behind’ and there is undue variation in the quality of provision and educational outcomes for particular groups of learners. [...] There are also differences in the rates of underachievement according to community background. Just over a third (37.9%) of Protestant boys with FSME achieved five GCSEs at grades A*-C or equivalent including English and maths, compared to 46.7% of their Catholic counterparts. Northern Ireland also has a significantly higher proportion of 17-24 year olds who have no qualifications than the other UK countries. [...] _______________________ [1] Burns, S., Leitch, R., Hughes, J. (2015) Education Inequalities in Northern Ireland Belfast: Queen’s University Belfast, Harland, K., McCready, S. (2012) Taking Boys Seriously – A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Male School-Life Experiences in Northern Ireland Bangor: DE and OECD (2015) The ABC of Gender Equality in Education Paris: OECD Publishing
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2014-02-03): THE DATAThe new figures show that the number of schoolchildren without English as their first language increased more than seven-fold in Northern Ireland between 2001/02 and 2012/13. In 2001/02 there were 1,366 newcomer children in NI’s schools – 0.5% of the total school population. At that time they were called ‘English as an Additional Language’ pupils. [...] "We find that newcomer children have at times outperformed their Northern Irish counterparts in assessments. This has meant pupils have an added stimulus to keep striving to be the best they can be as they see children who have English as their second language achieve so much and they want to achieve also.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2022-02-26): Spending on schools per head of population in Northern Ireland is similar to England, Scotland, and Wales. However, Northern Ireland’s comparatively large school age population means that spending per pupil is lower than elsewhere in the UK. On 22 October 2021, the BBC reported on a research publication by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and claimed that "Northern Ireland spends less on each school pupil’s education than any other part of the UK". The news article reported that about £6,400 would be spent per pupil in Northern Ireland in 2021–22, compared with £7,600 in Scotland, according to IFS figures. [...] This data shows that total education spend per head in Northern Ireland (£1,528) was higher than England and Wales, but lower than Scotland. Northern Ireland had a much higher spending per head on "subsidiary services to education" and "education not elsewhere classified (n.e.c.)", which could include spending that directly supports schools such as school transport, pupil support and special education.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2023-10-20): NI Education: School attendances hit worst level on record - Published School attendances in Northern Ireland over the past two years have been the worst on record. [...] The rate of persistent absence among pupils in Northern Ireland is also significantly higher than in England or Wales., external
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2022-01-12): Northern Ireland has one of the youngest primary school starting ages in Europe. Most children in Northern Ireland start school in September of the school year after their fourth birthday. [...] The Department of Education will now bring forward a bill to change the law on school starting age in Northern Ireland.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2023-09-06): A segregated and selective system is just one of many issues that the review is trying to tackle, though. Core school spending per pupil is lower in Northern Ireland than in England, Scotland and Wales, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found. [...] "In a nutshell, the problem is that we have less money to spend on public services here than elsewhere in the UK, on a comparable head-for-head basis," says O’Reilly, who knows the problem well, having run a Northern Ireland government department. Key factors here are that Northern Ireland has lower rates of property tax than other parts of the UK and, unlike other parts of the UK, does not levy specific water charges. The return of devolution "won’t address that fundamental problem" of underfunding of public services including education, warns O’Reilly.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2021-07-31): Northern Ireland’s schools are slowly becoming less segregated [...] WHEN THE autumn term starts, a school at the north-eastern edge of Northern Ireland will make a little piece of history. Seaview Primary in Glenarm, a coastal village where the accents are a constant reminder of the nearness of Scotland, will become the province’s first to leave the Catholic education system run independently from the state and overseen by Catholic bishops. The little school will become "integrated", seeking to draw pupils and teachers from both sides of the province’s sectarian divide. Liam Neeson, a film star who grew up nearby and who now holds American citizenship, praised his former compatriots for "taking courageous steps to ensure that children from different traditions will get to learn and play together, every day, in the same school". [...] Britain July 31st 2021 - Northern Ireland’s schools are slowly becoming less segregated - Northern Irish Catholics are becoming less devout - A conservative sport gets a glitzy makeover - The pandemic has disrupted services trade - Boris Johnson’s gamble looks like it will pay off - London’s flooding is sure to worsen - Is Westminster going back to normal?
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2018-04-05): Children and young people in the north of England are "too often left behind", according to a recent report from England’s Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield. This viewpoint helps to illuminate the very significant question of how intergenerational inequality – the gap between different generations – is intertwined with, and may continue to exacerbate, the UK’s stark regional disparities, which are often referred to using the shorthand term "North-South divide". [...] Although the North-South divide is generally well known, something which is less well publicised is that in recent years a significant gap has also developed between different regions in rates of social mobility. As the report from the Children’s Commissioner emphasises, children who come from relatively disadvantaged backgrounds in London are now much more likely to climb the social mobility ladder than their counterparts in poorer English regions (even though the overall level of social mobility in the UK as a whole remains fairly low), a trend which the report puts down to divergent rates of improvement between northern and southern state schools.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2015-05-01): - England and Northern Ireland score particularly badly on numeracy compared to other major economies. [...] England and Northern Ireland have one of the lowest levels of numeracy skills when compared to other OECD countries. 24% scored at or below the OECD's basic level of numeracy skills in tests conducted for its report on the 2013 skills outlook (confusingly, their basic level refers to a different Level 1 to the one above). [...] If you live in England and Northern Ireland, it's more likely that your social background will influence your literacy performance too, according to the report. Particularly so among young people.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2022-05-06): The research, by Professor John Jerrim and Sam Sims, looked at more than 1,800 children from grammar school areas in England and Northern Ireland. It found those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes in England have less than a 10% chance of attending a grammar school. This compares to around a 40% chance for children in the top quarter of household incomes. [...] The analysis from Jerrim and Sims was based upon the UK's Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). A total of 1,039 children from Northern Ireland and 819 children from grammar school areas in England were tracked from nine months through to age 14. The academics were therefore able to consider how factors such as family income, prior academic achievement, private tutoring and parental attitudes and aspirations were associated with children's chances of attending a grammar school. Other key findings from the study include: [...] - An even stronger association between family income and grammar school attendance was found in Northern Ireland. Children from high-income families were 33 percentage points more likely to attend a grammar school than low-income children of equal academic ability.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2024-07-10): More… - Migrants in Britain were less likely to perceive discrimination than their counterparts in some other European countries in 2018-20. However, UK levels of perceived discrimination were comparatively high among the adult children of migrants.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2016-10-27): Their children also do better than those in UK schools, but with an entirely different cultural approach, based on long hours and relentless pressure. [...] England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are already above the OECD average for the number of days taught.
Claim: For every child coming into school in Northern Ireland, they are getting much less than their counterparts in other regions of the United Kingdom. (Corinne Latham, 2018-03-13)
Evidence (2024-04-01): In Liverpool, where the Conservatives have not won a Parliamentary seat for forty years, spending, per head, fell more than in any other city in the country. Public-health spending in Blackpool, one of the poorest local authorities in England, was cut almost five times more, per person, than in the affluent county of Surrey, just south of London, whose eleven M.P.s are all Tories. Durcan and his colleagues noted the discrepancies between Labour- and Conservative-supporting regions. "And so there was cynicism," he said, "and also great disappointment, a sense of injustice." [...] The other view sees Brexit as an unfinished revolution. Regardless of its origins, the vote in 2016 was a repudiation of how Britain had been governed for a generation or more. In the B.M.J. article, Dorling observed that younger voters—who chose overwhelmingly to remain in the E.U.—were angry with their elders. "They will feel newly betrayed . . . but their real betrayal has been a long time in the making," he wrote. For a highly centralized country that is smaller than Wyoming, the U.K. is lopsided beyond belief. It contains regional inequalities greater than those between the east and the west of Germany, or the north and the south of Italy—inequalities that have been allowed by successive governments to grow to shameful extremes. On average, people in Nottingham earn about a quarter of what people make in Kensington and Chelsea, in West London, which is some two hours away by train.
Claim: A map shared on Twitter shows the amount of green space in Northern Ireland which is available to the public. (GreenspacesNI, 2023-05-25)
Evidence (2023-05-25): A map shared on Twitter claims to show all the greenspace in Northern Ireland currently available to the public. The GreenspaceNI map is a work in progress, and currently only features green areas at least two hectares in size. As things stand, the map – compiled from a host of sources – is the best-available representation of public-accessible natural space in NI.
Claim: A map shared on Twitter shows the amount of green space in Northern Ireland which is available to the public. (GreenspacesNI, 2023-05-25)
Evidence (2023-12-18): - A map shared on Twitter claims to show all the greenspace in Northern Ireland currently available to the public. [...] "This map of Northern Ireland shows the amount of green space available to the public – not a lot, is it" [...] "[The map] is a collated Northern Ireland-wide map of all accessible natural space over two hectares and off-road routes. It includes natural spaces and trails where the public have the landowner’s permission to visit, such as in urban and country parks, forests, beaches and walking trails."
Claim: A map shared on Twitter shows the amount of green space in Northern Ireland which is available to the public. (GreenspacesNI, 2023-05-25)
Evidence (2020-10-20): Our research investigated how space is shared in parks in Belfast. The use of parks could be seen as a microcosm of the wider debates surrounding the use of space in the city, but also highlight that the amenities offered by places like parks is starting to change the ways in which Belfast’s residents use their city. [...] We found that the everyday use of parks in west and north Belfast was often focused on local facilities – within a 10-minute walk. People are prepared to travel for specific activities, such as weekly sports or community activities, but maintain a more frequent relationship with local spaces which act as community hubs. [...] The development of the Connswater Greenway in east Belfast, the promotion of cycling along the Lagan River, and the high quality management of parks in west and north Belfast sets a inclusionary tone. The amenities these parks offer encourage people to use them as shared spaces.
Claim: A map shared on Twitter shows the amount of green space in Northern Ireland which is available to the public. (GreenspacesNI, 2023-05-25)
Evidence (2021-04-26): Dataset Access to public green space in Great Britain Ordnance Survey data estimating access to local green spaces across Great Britain, combined with Google mobility data showing the change in visits to and time spent in public green spaces between a pre-pandemic baseline period and spring and summer 2020.Edition in this dataset
Claim: A map shared on Twitter shows the amount of green space in Northern Ireland which is available to the public. (GreenspacesNI, 2023-05-25)
Evidence (2021-08-30): While availability of green space is important, it concludes urban green spaces also need to be of high quality, when it comes to cleanliness, safety and quality of services, to be perceived as being adequate by local residents. Basing planning on metrics that use objective measures of accessible green space "is unlikely to fully capture public perceptions of the adequacy of these spaces", the study by Peter Barlow, Seán Lyons and Anne Nolan finds. [...] There is ongoing debate about how best to measure the quality, quantity, and accessibility of green space. Subjective measures (asking people to assess whether green spaces are adequate), and objective measures (directly measuring types of green space in an individual’s local area) are used.
Claim: A map shared on Twitter shows the amount of green space in Northern Ireland which is available to the public. (GreenspacesNI, 2023-05-25)
Evidence (2024-08-13): Using OpenStreetMap indicators to determine if a green space is public [...] Other approaches to mapping public green space [...] More critically, mapping public green spaces will enables better estimates of how much access the wider public, particularly those who live in very urban areas, has to the beneficial qualities of green spaces.
Claim: A map shared on Twitter shows the amount of green space in Northern Ireland which is available to the public. (GreenspacesNI, 2023-05-25)
Evidence (2023-01-31): The definition of "green space" in the UK includes any land with vegetation on it - it could be a playing field, a disused railway line or an allotment. [...] Access to green spaces varies considerably across the UK and for different groups. [...] It has said the targets for access to green space will be built into national planning policy, requiring local authorities, which the plan says will be supported with clear funding, to deliver the ambitions.