The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Big Education and Oasis Charitable Trust have launched a report to tackle inequity in access to enrichment activities in schools. The report proposes a series of Enrichment Benchmarks that define what a comprehensive enrichment offer in schools should entail.
The aim is to help ensure all young people, regardless of background, can access high-quality enrichment activities that support their wellbeing, engagement, life skills and aspirations. The benchmarks can be an important pillar of wider government efforts to promote inclusion and belonging in schools – including a recent commitment by the Prime Minister to develop a framework to increase school engagement. You can read more about this initiative here.