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Independent study Context: Leitch Review of Skills report sets the ambitious vision for UK to become world leader in skills by 2020.The report identifies that UK has serious social disparities with high levels of child poverty, poor employment rates for the disadvantaged, regional disparities and relatively high-income inequality. Improving our skill levels can address all of these problems.(Leitch Final Report P6, 7). The review identifies that there are strong links between educational attainment of parents and their children; that means the children of those who have not attained highly at high school are less likely to do well. This makes a cycle of disadvantage that locks generations of the same family into persistent poverty. This cycle needs to be broken to raise aspirations and also ensuring that adults have real and effective second chance to improve their skills. There are also unequal distribution of skills between groups of people more that 40 percent...

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