It is important to everyone that employers, when they are recruiting into their business, or supporting employees to develop their careers, choose the best candidates, irrespective of their ...

The Local Innovation and Economic Dynamism index is a tool to help understand the barriers to entry, innovation, and upward social mobility across different parts of the UK. The tool combines data ...

The challenges facing young people from all backgrounds have been laid bare in a report published by the Social Mobility Commission today. Childhood Origins of Social Mobility explores the factors ...

The Social Mobility Commission has published its State of the Nation report, which sets out its views on the progress made towards improving social mobility in the UK. Using data about occupation, ...

Data spanning the last 25 years, collected and analysed by the Social Mobility Commission, lays bare a stark reality – modern day Britain is plagued by regional inequalities. The findings are set out ...

We all want to live in a country where hard work is rewarded. Regardless of where you were born, or what job your parents did, you should have the opportunity to make a success of your life. But we ...

The Social Mobility Commission’s report, Perceptions of Social Mobility in the UK: unpacking public attitudes and evolving aspirations, presents public perceptions of social mobility, inequality and ...

While academic attainment plays a fundamental role in access to higher education, even when comparing university student intakes to those who have already met the entry requirements, socio-economic ...

Success is not only shaped in the classroom – but families play a central role in their children’s attainment. Academics Dr Laura Outhwaite and Professor Claire Crawford from the UCL Centre for ...

Today, the Social Mobility Commission has published a new report giving voice to young people in Blackpool not in education, employment or training (NEET), which calls on the government to make ...

There has rightly been significant attention given to the nearly one million young people (aged 16 – 24) who are currently NEET, however there has been little work that speaks directly to young people ...

Greater Manchester has become the trailblazer for English devolution, but what can other parts of the country learn from its experience? In the latest episode of Social Mobility Talks, Alun Francis ...