Targeted support for the poorest makes more sense than perverse incentives for everybody.
The strategy will unveil measures to hold schools to account for their pupils' performance, ensure that they provide targeted support for any child who falls behind, and to increase support for poor young people to stay in education or training.
"Besides the first part of this triad, targeted support for Ukraine, is, second, the unceasing effort to find a diplomatic solution for the crisis in the dialogue with Russia".
Targeted support for pupils who are failing to reach a sufficient standard of literacy is a particularly effective way of reducing the achievement gap, because it ensures that help reaches pupils regardless of which school or class they are in.
It suggests a 15% reduction in smoking should be achieved by 2020 by offering targeted support for smokers and ensuring all mental health inpatient units are smoke-free by 2018.
Targeted support for the voluntary sector in disadvantaged areas would be essential and commissioning processes would be revisited to make sure they give fair access to small as well as large organisations; voluntary as well as private sector.
The Paris-based thinktank said the new setback to the economy would lead to social problems that would require targeted support for the weakest and measures to combat fast-rising homelessness.
Summer academic support is an important problem, and targeting support for summer growth is a key issue.
"We are considering a number of funding options including targeting support for personnel who have been subject to the latest round of redundancies".
It says: "There should be no government prescription of resources, and funding should be given directly to the professionals to deal with their school's literacy issues, for example, targeted support for a wide range of programmes that have been proven to work such as Reading Recovery".
