It outlines the recommendation in its report, State of the Nation 2018-19: Social Mobility in Great Britain, in which it says gaps between advantaged and less advantaged children open up before birth and persist throughout life.
It says urgent action is needed to address the stagnation of social mobility over the last four years, with measures such as the closure of hundreds of children's centres - and the scaling back of hundreds more sites - making it a challenge to ensure the hardest to reach families benefit from early years support.
With 500,000 more children in poverty since 2012, it said child poverty had an important influence on social mobility and young people living in poverty often had worse health and education outcomes and started school developmentally behind their more advantaged peers.
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