Closing Gap Between Richest And Poorest Schoolchildren Could Take 40 Years, MPs Warn
(World News UK)

The government must act to stop children living in social mobility “coldspots” falling even further behind their peers by transforming education in some of the UK’s poorest areas, MPs have urged. Parliament’s cross-party group on social mobility warned that education was a key factor in social mobility, with research showing that children who have a poor vocabulary aged five are more than twice as likely to be unemployed thirty years later....