...Scotland achieved three or more Highers at A grade. These poor outcomes continue after young people leave school. Young people from the poorest backgrounds - those eligible for free school...
...of children entitled to free school meals are achieving five good GCSEs including English and maths, rising to two thirds by 2025. Long-term youth unemployment to be ended by 2020...
Today saw the publication of an interesting new study from the University of Oxford analysing trends over time in social mobility from a sociological perspective. As the authors note, while...
...child poverty over the next few years. Second, though it marshals some excellent recent policy announcements – universal infant free school meals, removing National Insurance for under-21s – it needs...
...to someone coming from a background where survival is paramount. Growing up poor, your brain is constantly working out how to get through today; and planning to work out tomorrow...
...call to make the Living Wage the statutory minimum today. That must remain as a wage floor which is set with regard to protecting jobs. But, with a decade to...
...many low-paid workers interviewed for the study believed that the downsides of promotion – such as increases in responsibility, changes to working arrangements, changes to relationships with colleagues and additional...