State of the Nation is the most comprehensive analysis of social mobility in the UK. The 2026 report finds a mixed picture of progress and setbacks in different areas of social mobility. The 2026 ...

Commission releases annual analysis of life chances in the UK Finding education and occupational mobility improving but worsening outlooks for youth employment and chance of owning a home Life ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

The Social Mobility Commission’s report, Regional Insights: Creating fairer chances across the regions, calls for more powers to be granted to devolved administrations to help tackle the UK’s social ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...