...too late. As the Scottish Government begins to implement its new programme, it should perhaps reflect on the messages in the Commission’s Cracking the Code research. It is essential that...
...Supplement the existing child poverty targets with new measures to give a more rounded picture of poverty and publish a new timescale for achieving them. Ensure that welfare reforms and...
...why we called for the new child poverty strategy to deliver an ambitious detailed step-by-step plan for how the government will meet the 2020 targets. We looked for stronger action...
...will be for the new company to set its strategy. To ensure the creation of the new company serves all pupils well the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission recommends...
...financial crisis has brought these concerns to the fore. In its wake a new public consensus has begun to emerge that unearned wealth for a few at the top, growing...
...adapt to their new social environment with detrimental impact on their ability to reach their potential. And the lack of effective networks and advice to help navigate this new alien...
...The change has been driven by three things, two of which are good news: A big decrease in the proportion of children living in workless households: from 20% in 1996...
...employers to develop a far better understanding of how different aspects of their recruitment practices impact on social mobility and to ask the right questions and take the right action...
...driving action to open up and link data together to better understand social mobility. It also committed to “explore the potential for including a new question looking at social background...
...the 30 year gap between the Birth Cohort Studies of 1970 and 2000 - it is welcome that new methods are enabling this gap to be filled by this and...