Author Archives: Anthony McCaul

Anthony McCaul

The Independent View: social mobility begins at birth

By Anthony McCaul | Tue 22nd May 2012 - 10:51 am

As Nick Clegg bangs the social mobility drum today at the Sutton Trust announcing social trackers to measure fairness in society, we welcome his re-affirmation that social mobility matters. At Family Action our work with disadvantaged and vulnerable families, means that every day our workers witness the fundamental unfairness of some children’s circumstances.

The pupil premium and the extension of Sure Start to two–year olds are important policy wins. But Family Action is concerned that the Coalition is missing the boat by not focusing enough on babyhood and the first steps in early intervention. A wealth of neuroscientific and …

Continue reading »
Posted in News and The Independent View | Tagged | 2 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • Jack
    This is devastating. Christine Jardine is my kind of Lib Dem. There's a left-right element to that comment, but it's not just that. I worry about a liberal part...
  • Graham Evans
    Surely the wider party membership and Liberal Democrats voters in Edinburgh West are entitled to know what has been going on in the local party. All we know is ...
  • Ruth Bright
    Supreme irony that one of the commenters here about diversity at conference mortified me at a conference of yore by drawing attention to the fact that I was alw...
  • Rebecca Taylor
    @Anne - biological sex based exclusions were always permitted under the Equality Act (before the Supreme Court ruling) in limited and defined circumstances like...
  • Roderick Lynch
    Christine Jardine MP is one of our most formidable MP’s . She can debate you in depth on most subjects. One of MP’s that kept the party relevant when wipe o...