Educational inequalities 'shocking'

Inequalities in educational achievement between different areas - and different neighbourhoods in the same town - are "shocking", the Conservatives said.

New data for GCSE results at neighbourhood level showed that in one area of Bradford just 3% of children achieved the target of five GCSEs including English and Maths at grade A*-C in 2007, compared to 100% in one part of Richmond-on-Thames in south London.

Shadow schools secretary Michael Gove said the figures showed that children born in deprived neighbourhoods have far less opportunity to succeed than those brought up in affluent areas.

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