The policy ‘risks entrenching educational inequality’ and more parents should be able to access it, the commission said in a new report.
Chair Martina Milburn said the panel wanted to 'look at' extending the policy to the unemployed in the long term but hadn't recommended this because, ‘we are looking at recommendations which we want people to take up and which are achievable.’
The report says, ‘There is a clear social mobility case for extending the [30 hours] offer to more families. The most disadvantaged children in the system who stand to gain the most from additional professional contact time are losing out because they are either not eligible ...or their parents are not aware that they are.’
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