The government's £7bn "fairness premium" for disadvantaged twoto 20-year-olds will fail to have an impact in the face of wider cuts to public spending, economists and children's services professionals have warned.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg last Friday announced plans to invest £2.5bn in a pupil premium for deprived school children, £300m in free pre-school education for disadvantaged two-year-olds and £150m in a student premium to fund university for poor young people.
But Haroon Chowdry, senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told CYP Now that impending cuts to the Department for Education's budget would negate the introduction of the pupil premium.
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