Within his Plan for Change, the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, confirmed that early years will be one of the Government’s ‘key milestones’ to break the link between life chances and family background. By 2028, the Government wants 75 per cent of children ‘school ready’, up from 68 per cent this year.
But analysis written by Nesta’s director of fairer start, Sarah Cattan, an economist who formerly worked at the IFS, argues that ‘With limited scope for additional public investment following a decade of disinvestment from preventative early childhood services, an early education and childcare sector in crisis, and over one in three children under the age of four living in poverty, the Government will face real challenges in achieving this target.’
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