New research has revealed that 70 per cent of families who are eligible for the 30 free hours of early education and childcare are in the top half of earners and just 13 per cent of eligible families come from the bottom third.
Indeed, only one in five of families in the bottom third of the earnings distribution are eligible for the entitlement.
The situation seems bizarre given that at age two, the very poorest children are given greater access to funded early education and care, many of these same children are then given access to fewer funded hours at age three and four.
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