According to the Sutton Trust report in partnership with the Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust, which focuses on the early years, the 30 hours policy ‘effectively ‘locks out the poorest children from state funded early education opportunities simply because their parents don’t earn enough.’
It says that this only ‘compounds inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic and will impact upon their life chances.’
The report is published as part of the Sutton Trust’s ‘A Fair Start?” campaign to give poorer children the same access to early years education as their richer peers.
It highlights how the current policy disproportionately benefits more advantaged families with 70 per cent of those eligible for the extended entitlement in the top half of earners, while just 13 per cent are in the bottom third of the income distribution.
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