VE Day: Council duties under the Armed Forces Covenant
As we mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Geoff Wild, Legal & Governance Consultant, looks at the duties of councils under the Armed Forces Covenant.
NextGov: Boosting social mobility
13/06/2024 Carl Cullinane, director of Research and Policy at the Sutton Trust, looks at what the next government should do to deliver greater social mobility. |
Areas with low social mobility face funding ‘penalty’
11/08/2023 The areas with the highest levels of social mobility receive 50% more in Whitehall grants than the least socially mobile areas, think tank Onward says. |
Barnsley launches new initiative to boost employment
04/07/2023 Barnsley Council and the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority have launched a new initiative to support thousands of residents into employment. |
Focus on A-Levels undermines social mobility, think tank says
18/08/2022 White working-class and black British students risk missing out if schools focus on A-Levels as the main pathway to professional success, think tank warns. |
Some families face being ‘locked into disadvantage’ for generations, report says
15/09/2020 Deprivation in dozens of English councils is now so persistent that some families face being locked into disadvantage for generations, report warns. |
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Fifth of local government leaders ‘privately educated’
25/06/2019 Around 20% of local government leaders and 29% of MPs are privately educated compared to 7% of the population, a report into social mobility has revealed. |
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Commission warns of entrenched ‘privilege gap’
01/05/2019 The Government must take urgent action to help close the ‘privilege gap’, says the annual report by the Social Mobility Commission. |
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Young people ‘pessimistic’ about future
12/12/2018 Millennials are ‘deeply uneasy’ about their futures, according to a new report into social mobility in the UK. |
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Unfair council funding is holding back social mobility in counties, MPs warn
31/10/2018 Social mobility in rural English counties is being held back by an outdated and unfair method of funding councils, according to a new report. |
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Whitehall announces £24m scheme to ‘boost’ social mobility in North East
08/10/2018 The education secretary will today launch a multi-million pound programme to boost social mobility and raise aspirations for children in the North East. |
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Cash-strapped schools relying on donations from affluent parents
13/09/2018 Government budget cuts are forcing many schools to rely more heavily on financial contributions from parents, a charity focusing on social mobility finds. |
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Inquiry launched into rural social mobility
29/03/2018 A new inquiry on social mobility in rural areas has been launched in a bid to determine what opportunities are available to young people in counties. |
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Educational opportunities ‘geographically unequal’, think tank says
22/12/2017 Access to high performing schools has become more ‘geographically unequal’ despite emphasis on improving schools outside of London, report finds. |
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Britain is a ‘social mobility postcode lottery’, report says
28/11/2017 A report into social mobility ‘debunks’ assumption that a simple north-south divide exists and argues chances of success are closely bound to where you live. |
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Decades of Whitehall policy has failed to improve social mobility, commission finds
28/06/2017 Two decades of Government efforts to improve social mobility have failed to reduce the gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’, report reveals. |
