The plans are part of a flagship initiative, first announced in October 2016, seeking to boost children and young people's life chances in 12 English districts that score poorly on social mobility.
The delivery plans for the first six opportunity areas - Blackpool, Derby, North Yorkshire, Norwich, Oldham and West Somerset - all emphasise the importance of enhancing early years support in combating social stagnation.
The need to raise achievement of children before they start school is identified as a priority in all the opportunity areas except Blackpool, which only excluded it so not to replicate the work of the town's existing early years improvement initiative Better Start.
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