PRESS RELEASE : Nick Clegg announces £7 billion ‘fairness premium’ for disadvantaged children

The press release issued by the Department for Education on 15 October 2010.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has today given a speech setting out the Coalition Government’s approach to fairness and social mobility. He has announced £7 billion funding for a ‘fairness premium’, which will give all disadvantaged two-year-olds an entitlement to 15 hours a week of pre-school education and also to deliver a pupil premium for disadvantaged children.