The costs of education in an age of austerity: a local study

This report presents the findings of a small-scale, local study of the costs of education in secondary schools in Oxford, from the viewpoint of parents.

The research was conducted by the Oxford and District Action on Child Poverty group, whose goals were: to assess the costs of education for children in secondary schools in Oxford; to find out how families perceived these costs and their impact, and if and how they managed to cover them; and to learn what schools had done to respond to the impact of these costs on families and the outcomes of their responses. The focus was on pupils in year 7 in secondary school.