Asked by: Jade Botterill (Labour - Ossett and Denby Dale)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve opportunities for young people.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)
All young people should have every opportunity to succeed, no matter who they are, where they are from, or how much their parents earn.
Through the Opportunity Mission and the Child Poverty Taskforce we will make sure that all young people thrive in education and will break the unfair link between background and success. After 14 years where children’s horizons have grown narrower and the disadvantage gap has persistently remained a chasm, we are putting education back at the heart of national life. Creating 3,000 new or expanded school-based nurseries, recruiting 6,500 additional teachers, and launching Skills England to transform opportunities and drive growth. We are also investing more in children’s services to set them on a sustainable trajectory and have announced new funding for kinship care and fostering to keep children safe and provide family security for our most vulnerable children.