The consultation was first announced by the then children’s minister Sam Gymiah in Nursery World more than three years ago. Last year, former childcare minister Caroline Dinenage suggested that the consultation was still expected to take place.
However, in a letter to the Science and Technology Committee, the children and families minister Nadhim Zahawi, along with MP Jackie Doyle-Price, implies that there are currently no plans to run the consultation and that the focus instead will be on implementing the Government's Social Mobility Action plan.
The letter also refers to the Early Years Social Mobility Peer Review Programme with the Local Government Association, launched in April, as a means of spreading best practice in the early years, which will be rolled out this autumn.
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