Educational attainment gap between rich and poor children: FOI release

FOI reference: FOI/17/01593
Date received: 28 June 2017
Date responded: 8 August 2017

Information requested

A list of the dates between May 2007 and November 2014 on which the Scottish Cabinet discussed the educational attainment gap between rich and poor children.

Response

The dates when the educational attainment gap were discussed at Cabinet in terms of equity of access and attainment in education are set out below. However Cabinet will also have discussed the topic on many occasions in wider conversations when a substantive paper was not presented and where it is not possible from our records to identify dates.

Date of Cabinet Meeting

12 June 2007
3 July 2007
25 September 2007
15 January 2008
29 January 2008
26 February 2008
4 March 2008
15 April 2008
28 October 2008
2 December 2008
13 January 2009
24 February 2009
24 March 2009
21 April 2009
26 May 2009
1 September 2009
22 September 2009
15 December 2009
23 February 2010
22 June 2010
10 August 2010
7 December 2010
21 June 2011
13 September 2011
20 September 2011
20 December 2011
24 January 2012
12 June 2012
19 June 2012
26 June 2012
23 August 2012
18 September 2012
11 December 2012
5 February 2013
5 March 2013
12 March 2013
26 March 2013
25 June 2013
2 September 2013
3 December 2013
17 December 2013
17 June 2014
4 November 2014
24 November 2014

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