Compensatory education:
policies de-signed to compensate for low-performance & underachievement for children disadvantaged by poor backgrounds e.g. FSM
1) Education Action Zones (EAZs), geographical areas, more funding and resources for these, also 'Aim Higher' initiative to try get poor background kids interested in unis
2) Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), cash weekly payment for staying in education doing A-level or vocational, incentive for students below certain households income, stop them going straight to work
3) City academies, first academies only for poor underachieving schools in an inner city area, takes schools out of LEA control & turns into academy, money direct from gov, new management & name, new image, try improve for poor kids, sub-contracting too