Less than one in ten teachers think the Coalition Government’s school reforms introducing more academies and establishing free schools will help improve the educational outcomes of disadvantaged children, a major survey of teachers has found. The majority of teachers also fear that moves to provide more freedom for schools will lead to greater social segregation across the education system.

The extent of the educational divide ‘beyond the classroom’ is revealed today by research commissioned by the Sutton Trust into the amount of homework and other extra curricular activities undertaken by children of graduate parents compared with those from less educated homes.