The Government’s Social Mobility Action Plan was launched last December, with various initiatives aimed at improving literacy and numeracy standards in the early years as a means of reducing the disadvantage gap. In July a number of extra funds were announced, taking the total committed funding to £72 million
We have unpicked these plans, which have several ambitions, each with underpinning challenges, and indicated how much money has been allotted to each.
As we have seen with the Workforce Strategy, when you strip out what is genuinely new, the resulting policy paper can get a little thin. For example, £12 million for literacy hubs in the North and £5 million to trial parenting interventions were announced before the Social Mobility Action Plan was published.
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