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Claire Tyler

Baroness Tyler writes… To improve social mobility, we need to shine a spotlight on early years

By Claire Tyler | Sat 5th May 2012 - 1:21 pm

One of the fascinating things I have discovered since joining the Lib Dem group in the Lords last year is the profusion of all party groups in Parliament on virtually every subject under the sun. There are quite simply hundreds of them including some pretty bizarre ones ! About a year ago I decided to join the cross party group on social mobility – a key interest of mine since my time in central government as the Head of the Social Exclusion Unit. On Tuesday we launched our first report at a packed event in hosted by the Policy …

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