• What are the best (most cost-effective and scalable) ways that education and children’s social care can increase opportunities and address disadvantage (socioeconomic and other forms) throughout children and young people’s education and care journeys and into the labour market?
• When, where, how, and for whom do they work best?

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The Department for Education (DfE) has lead responsibility for the Government’s Opportunity Mission, which aims to break the link between a child’s background and future success. The Opportunity Mission aims to break the link between a child’s background and future success. The following question has informed all our areas of research interest and should be considered across all of them.

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