Social mobility white paper: Key measures
Early Years – Supporting Child Development
-An injection of £57m to extend free childcare for disadvantaged two year olds – a further step towards the Government’s long term ambition to make a free early learning and childcare place available to all two year olds
-All vulnerable pregnant mums to have access to a dedicated family nurse to help through pregnancy and first 2 years
World Class Schools
-New £10k bonuses to get and keep the most effective teachers in the schools that need them the most, which could reach more than 500 schools and 6000 teachers a year
Transition To Work
-Creating 35,000 new apprenticeship places so that all qualified young people will have a right to an apprenticeship by 2013
-A new guarantee for high potential young people from low income backgrounds to get the help they need to get to university
-Full time community volunteering programme for people not in education, employment or training in 33 local authorities
Getting On In Work
-Establishing a Panel that will identify and remove the barriers that prevent fair access to professional jobs
-Enable professionals to retrain and gain new skills by trebling the number of professional and career development loans from 15,000 to 45,000 in the next two years
Supporting Families
-£500 back to work training entitlement for parents and carers
-Employment support programme for young people leaving care
-£15million communities fund to tackle deprivation on the worst estates and build thriving and sustainable communities.
