Social Mobility Crisis

Including: This Social Mobility Crisis

4 mentions.

2013 - 2015

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2013 to 2015

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To truly tackle the Social Mobility Crisis that exists in our country we need much more radical action than the schemes, no doubt well intentioned, that the Secretary of State is talking about.

Those who say that we cannot afford to do such a thing should consider that failure to tackle This Social Mobility Crisis will cost the UK economy up to £140 billion a year by 2050, or 4% of GDP.

If she really wants to tackle the Social Mobility Crisis in this country, she should look at the excellent work of the Sutton Trust and consider introducing the open access scheme to enable children from poor backgrounds in constituencies such as mine to get into 120 private schools in this country.

White working-class boys are three times less likely to go on to university than their counterparts from wealthier families, so should this review not be about closing that gap and addressing the Social Mobility Crisis that exists in our country, instead of being about some sort of crude, one-size-fits-all, national standard, which is what the Members behind the Secretary of State are clearly urging her to introduce?


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