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Chancellor Sunak must be brave and invest in the future by starting with the early years

The other night I was watching my new late-night Netflix addiction, How to Get Away With Murder.

I have reached Series 5 where the main protagonist is taking on the unfair judicial system and an underfunded prison service. In one episode, she asked her students to fight an issue of social justice and, right there in my cosy half-light, I sat bolt upright as one of her students pitched for the rights of small children to have access to high quality nursery education no matter their background.

Contrast that with the two recent reports from the Sutton Trust and the Early Years Alliance who concluded that this generation of children face unprecedented threats to their childhoods and life chances.

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