For media and bloggers

Resources for media and bloggers

We want to encourage debate online and offline about the issues raised in this document, and have made the following resources available for bloggers and journalists to use within their own coverage of the White Paper.

Key proposals:

Early Years - Supporting Child Development

An injection of £57m to extend free childcare for disadvantaged two year olds - a further step towards the Government’s long term ambition to make a free early learning and childcare place available to all two year olds
All vulnerable pregnant mums to have access to a dedicated family nurse to help through pregnancy and first 2 years

World Class Schools

New £10k bonuses to get and keep the most effective teachers in the schools that need them the most, which could reach more than 500 schools and 6000 teachers a year

Transition to work

Creating 35,000 new apprenticeship places so that all qualified young people will have a right to an apprenticeship by 2013
A new guarantee for high potential young people from low income backgrounds to get the help they need to get to university
Full time community volunteering programme for people not in education, employment or training in 33 local authorities

Getting on in work

Establishing a Panel that will identify and remove the barriers that prevent fair access to professional jobs
Enable professionals to retrain and gain new skills by trebling the number of Professional and Career Development Loans from 15,000 to 45,000 in the next two years

Supporting Families

£500 back to work training entitlement for parents and carers
Employment support programme for young people leaving care
£15million communities fund to tackle deprivation on the worst estates and build thriving and sustainable communities.

Press notices

DCSF: 13/01/2009: Children at heart of New Opportunities White Paper

Cabinet Office: 13/01/2009: Panel on Fair Access to the Professions announced – New Opportunities White Paper

Cabinet Office: 13/01/2009: New Opportunities White Paper - Fair Chances for the Future

DIUS: 13/01/2009: Government to treble number of Career Development Loans

CLG: 13/01/2009: Blears - supporting communities to support individuals

Relevant background material

Number10.gov.uk » New Opportunities White Paper
Aspirations and attainment in deprived communities
‘Aspirations and attainment in deprived communities’ is a joint project between the Social Exclusion Task Force, DCSF and CLG. It explores the potential to raise the attainment of young people in deprived communities, by raising aspirations and changing attitudes within these communities.
Social mobility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia: "Social mobility is the degree to which an individual's family or group's social status can change throughout the course of their life through a system of social hierarchy or stratification. Subsequently, it is also the degree to which an individual's or group's descendants move up and down the class system. The individual or family can move up or down the social classes based on achievements or factors beyond their control."
Social Mobility
This discussion paper discusses the issue of social mobility. Social mobility describes the movement or opportunities for movement between different social groups, and the advantages and disadvantages that go with this in terms of income, security of employment, opportunities for advancement etc.