The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on social mobility's Closing the Regional Attainment Gap report highlights how children with poor vocabulary at the age of five are more than twice as likely to be unemployed by the time they reach 34.
According to the APPG, the attainment gap between pupils from disadvantaged areas and those from more affluent areas is a key factor behind the coldspots - areas where social mobility is low.
While there are indications that the attainment gap is narrowing over all, there is patchy progress across the country and some areas are being left behind, while London's success pulls it away from the rest of the country.
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