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University chances being ‘stripped away’ from poorer children, Labour education bosses claim

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Children from poorer backgrounds are missing out on university places, according to the shadow secretary for child poverty. Labour’s Wes Streeting, shadow child poverty secretary, and Stretford and Urmston’s MP Kate Green both visited University Academy 92 in Trafford and argued that opportunity is being ‘stripped away’ from Greater Manchester’s young people as poorer teens are missing out on university places.

Labour party research states young people from poorer households in Greater Manchester are increasingly less likely than their more affluent peers to attend university. READ MORE: Oldham secondary school pupils asked to wear masks again over winter Covid-19 fears But a spokesperson for the Department for Education challenged

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