The Educational Endowment Foundation’s toolkit lists “Early Years Interventions” as being among the most impactful strategies for raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. The theory is this: if we do not address the causes of disadvantage from a very early age, certainly as soon as a child starts primary school, then we will never close the gap.
This makes sense because the academic achievement gap between rich and poor is detectable from as early as 22 months and the gap continues to widen as children travel through the education system. The longer we leave it to act, therefore, the wider the gap becomes and the more unlikely we are to close it.
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