The Social Mobility and Child Poverty (SMCP) Commission submitted 11 questions to the National Foundation for Educational Research’s (NFER) Teacher Voice Omnibus Survey in March, 2014. The questions examined teachers’ views on:
- The factors that shape students’ hopes for the future
- Their colleagues’ expectations of students from disadvantaged backgrounds compared with other students.
- The importance of providing enrichment opportunities for students
- Schools’ success in providing IAG to help support students achieve their goals
- Students’ likely future career destinations
- The factors that might influence their decisions in choosing a school to work at.
There was a total of 1,163 survey respondents: 602 in primary schools and 561 in secondary schools. The respondents comprised 248 senior leaders and 915 classroom teachers.
This report provides an analysis of the responses to the questions, along with supporting information about the survey. Results are presented by school phase (primary and secondary in the main report), by seniority of respondent (classroom teachers or senior leaders in Annex 2) and by Government Office Region (Annex 2). Please note, when responses are broken down by region or role in school, the respondent number is often too small to make sensible comparisons.