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Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has vowed to tackle the yawning inequalities" in educational attainment.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, she said:

Alongside the post-16 white paper that we'll be publishing later on this year, I will also bring a big focus through our schools white paper on how we tackle these thorny generational challenges where white working-class kids across our country don't get the start that they deserve.

Now the school system is an important part of how we respond to that, but I would say alongside it so much of this develops and opens up in the early years.
The attainment gap that we see between less well-off students and better-off students opens up before the age of five.