More children from disadvantaged backgrounds should be sent to boarding schools to “vastly improve their outcomes” and "turn their lives around", an Education minister will say today.

The comments came after a Government study found that giving vulnerable children a boarding school place can dramatically improve their future.

Nadhim Zahawi, who is in charge of helping disadvantaged children, will tell a Tory conference on Saturday: “The key to getting these children to achieve the outcomes they deserve is stability, support and an excellent education.

“And I believe our independent schools need to do their share to help out.

“Evidence shows that when children in need go to state run boarding schools, they are able to turn their lives around and vastly improve their outcomes."

Speaking to the Conservative Progress conference, he is expected to say: “I want to boost the numbers able to go to state boarding schools, but we must also open up private boarding schools and private day schools too.

“In Norfolk, the Norfolk Boarding School Partnership have run a ten year programme of sending looked-after children, and children at the edge of care to state and independent boarding schools.

“The evidence from this programme is clear. The educational attainment of these children is massively improved.