Among the claimed benefits of the initiative - which targets 12 "social mobility coldspots" - are that it is helping to develop innovative practices that can be rolled out nationwide.
It also has a "convening power" to join-up numerous existing local education and employment schemes and boost their worth to young people, leaders told a roundtable hosted by the parliamentary education committee yesterday and attended by members of some of the Opportunity Area Partnership Boards.
The three-year programme, launched in October 2016 in six of the areas, was under scrutiny by committee chair Conservative MP Robert Halfon.
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