The foundation years – Preventing poor children becoming poor adults : Frank Field Review

The Review has concluded that the UK needs to address the issue of child poverty in a fundamentally different way if it is to make a real change to children’s life chances as adults. They have found overwhelming evidence that children’s life chances are most heavily predicated on their development in the first five years of life. It is family background, parental education, good parenting and the opportunities for learning and development in those crucial years that together matter more to children than money, in determining whether their potential is realised in adult life.