Poverty Gap Closing?

‘The gap between pupils from the most and least deprived areas who go on to university, college or a job after school has closed by over a fifth in one year, new figures show. The proportion of 2016/17 school leavers from the most deprived areas in a positive destination nine months after leaving school increased to 87.6% – reducing the gap with school leavers from the least deprived areas by 22%.’
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/2018/06/20/scottish-government-announces-that-poverty-gap-is-closing-bbc-scotland-ignores-it/