With child poverty forecast to rise by 400,000, Keir Starmer’s pledge to improve the life chances of early learners is a matter of the utmost urgency
A third of children starting school in England aged five are not “school ready”. For children from disadvantaged backgrounds, that figure is much higher – just under half of children eligible for free school meals enter the classroom not having met the level of development expected for their age. This gap could not be more important: children who start school already behind are more likely to fall further behind and to disengage from their education as they get older.
Until now, the government has had too little to say on ensuring more children start school with healthy levels of development; as we have previously argued, it has been a conspicuously missing element of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. So it is very welcome that Keir Starmer last week included a specific target to improve school readiness – the prime minister has pledged to increase the numbers of children who are school ready from two-thirds to three-quarters by the end of this parliament – as part of Labour’s new “plan for change” milestones.
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