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BBC News By Robbie Meredith Published image captionThe newly-published research was a commitment in the New Decade New Approach agreement The Department of Education needs to spend more than £180m on widespread measures to tackle educational underachievement over the next five years. All children should also go to pre-school for at least four and a half hours a day. There needs to be significantly more investment in early years education. Those are some of the actions recommended in a wide-ranging report, called A Fair Start. The research had been a commitment in the New Decade New Approach (NDNA) agreement. The panel was expected to look particularly at the long-standing issues facing working class Protestant boys and come up with an action plan to tackle underachievement.

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