Supporting the Education of Children Who Use English as an Additional Language

In this briefing, we outline our calls for change across eight key areas, for ensuring that pupils who use English as an Additional Language (EAL) receive effective and appropriate support in education:

1. Address the EAL policy vacuum as a priority. 
2. Assess English proficiency. 
3. Create a curriculum that reflects the diversity of today's classroom.
4. Train teachers for multilingual classrooms. 
5. Support children with high needs arriving later into the school system.
6. Reform Ofsted to include EAL in inspections.  
7. Provide a structured approach on oracy for EAL.
8. Maintain EAL resources in the school funding formula.

For more information on the educational outcomes of EAL pupils, explore our research.