The educational charity the Sutton Trust says that a well-trained early years workforce is vital to close the gap between children from poorer homes and their peers.
Its recommendations draw on the conclusions of the Sutton Trust/ Carnegie social mobility summit held in London earlier this year, which brought together researchers from the United States, the UK, Canada and Australia.
All of them agreed that well-targeted investment in training those who work with young children was crucial, particularly in the UK, which despite the fact it spends more than other countries on early childhood education has one of the biggest gaps in ‘school readiness’ between the richest and poorest four-and five-year-olds.
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