...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...child poverty by 2020. Government publications come and go but this one really matters because, as the Commission found in our State of the Nation report last October, the situation...
...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...
...to address any barriers that are identified. There has been an increasing focus on this, with organisations such as Professions for Good developing staff surveys that can be used by...
...of steps including introducing a number of social mobility indicators to track progress over time and providing funding for the Life Study - a new Birth Cohort Study that will...
...degrees, but had a blind spot when it came to work experience with a plethora of friends, family and client schemes and little else. Work experience matters because, although it...