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London schools: deliverology or collaboration?
It is said that success has many parents, and that has certainly been true of the London Challenge – the much-feted programme of between-school collaboration in the 2000s, whose steps included groups of heads benchmarking themselves using ‘families of schools’ …
The professions and social mobility: time to step up
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David Johnston, Posted on:
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Accountancy, professions, Social Mobility, Uncategorized
This week over 20 institutions from the accountancy profession launched Access Accountancy, a collaborative initiative to widen access to the profession. A key plank of Access Accountancy is the provision of work experience placements for children who lack connections. This …
Government response to child poverty and social mobility challenge - more pace, drive and ambition needed
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Alan Milburn, Posted on:
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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?
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Professor Paul Gregg, Posted on:
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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 …
First impressions on the Child Poverty Strategy: a missed opportunity?
This morning the Government has published its long-awaited draft Child Poverty Strategy – a document that, in theory, constitutes its plan to meet its statutory obligation to end child poverty by 2020. Government publications come and go but this one …
Who’s frightened of being middle class?
The main focus of public debate on social mobility is on how the gaps in educational outcomes between children from rich and poor backgrounds can be closed. This is clearly the right priority for policy given the critical importance of …
Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission: our new blog
It is in Britain’s DNA that everyone should have a fair chance in life. Yet too often demography is destiny in our country. Being born poor often leads to a lifetime of poverty. Poor schools ease people into poor jobs. …