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Social Mobility and Child Poverty

Scottish schools cracking the social mobility code

, 12 December 2014 - schools, Scotland, Social Mobility, Social Mobility and Child Poverty

Last month our Chair, Alan Milburn and Douglas Hamilton held a series of meetings in Scotland to highlight the importance of social mobility, hear about the challenges facing Scottish society in making progress in improving it and to discuss the …

Government response to child poverty and social mobility challenge - more pace, drive and ambition needed

, 27 March 2014 - Child Poverty, Social Mobility, Social Mobility and Child Poverty, Uncategorized

Last October, the Commission published our first State of the Nation report – a 350-page anatomy of the many challenges faced  in making  Britain a fairer place. In it we sought not just to describe the raft of programmes being put in …

Working poverty: what's going on?

, 18 March 2014 - Child Poverty, Poverty, Social Mobility and Child Poverty

One of the Commission’s key concerns about child poverty is its growth of poverty in working families – a trend both recent and startling.    As our State of the Nation report highlighted, in 1996-97, more children in poverty lived …

What we do....

The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission monitors the progress of government and others in improving social mobility and reducing child poverty in the United Kingdom.

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