Responding to the Social Mobility Commission’s ‘Time for change’
report, Sir Peter Lampl, Founder and Chairman of the Sutton Trust
and Chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), said:
“Britain’s social mobility is, together with the United States,
the lowest in the developed world. We at the Sutton Trust
have played our part in highlighting this by putting social
mobility on the map. Also together with the Education
Endowment Foundation we have helped hundreds of thousands of
young people.
“Improving this low social mobility has been a priority for
successive governments. is right to say that
this has delivered ‘too little’ progress. In some cases – the
attainment gap at primary school, for example – real
improvements have been made. However this has not been
sustained in secondary schools. There has been a failure
to level the playing field and improve opportunities for young
people from disadvantaged families.
“What we need is real political action that supports
disadvantaged young people at every stage of their life, from
before school starts, through to university and beyond.”
NOTES TO EDITORS
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The Sutton Trust is
a foundation set up in 1997, dedicated to improving social
mobility through education. It has published over 180
research studies and funded and evaluated programmes that
have helped hundreds of thousands of young people of all
ages, from early years through to access to the professions.
- TheMobility
Manifesto, published by the Sutton Trust in May 2017,
sets out 10 practical policy steps to improve social
mobility.
- A full copy of the report will be available to download
at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/social-mobility-commission