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Early years key to closing gap en rich and poor

The likelihood of going to a top university can be traced back to children's preschool years, according to a new report.

The interim report by the cross-party All Party Parliamentary Group onSocial Mobility, Seven Truths About Social Mobility, argues that theattainment gap can be traced back to a child's earliest years, with the'point of greatest leverage' for social mobility being from birth tothree years old, primarily at home.

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