We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
The Social Mobility Barometer unveils public attitudes to social mobility in 2021.
Report looking at the national, regional and organisational barriers to stability in the early years workforce.
Research on the links between social and emotional skills and disadvantaged backgrounds.
Use our new toolkit to design apprenticeship programmes that will have a positive effect on social mobility and socio-economic diversity & inclusion.
The Social Mobility Commission's State of the Nation 2018 to 2019 report highlights inequality in Britain and sets out key findings and recommendations.
This latest review helps employers understand the composition of their workforce, using key data to ensure a more inclusive workplace.
A new poll by the Social Mobility Commission reveals a growing gulf between social classes and a mental health crisis that needs to be addressed.
Social Mobility Commissioners build on three years of in-depth research and strategic thinking to set out a programme of reform to drive social mobility forward
Information about research into apprenticeships and social mobility, and guidance for employers on getting the most out of apprenticeships.
Professional people from working class backgrounds are paid £6,800 less than their colleagues from more affluent backgrounds.
A new report highlights a culture of conformity in investment banking, where even clothes can count against less privileged young people.
Detailed analysis of the educational background of business, political, media and public sector leaders in the UK.
This data ranks local authorities on the prospects of disadvantaged young people growing up in their areas.
The Minister for Women and Equalities, Liz Truss, sets out the Government's new approach to tackling inequality across the UK.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The Social Mobility Commission has launched its new Employer Advisory Group and announced the members.
Research finds that progress made by poor pupils in primary school is all but wiped out during secondary school.
Research on first-time buyers' reliance on their parents to get onto the housing ladder.
Katharine Birbalsingh CBE announces that she is resigning as Chair of the Social Mobility Commission and the Minister for Women and Equalities' response.
A Social Mobility Commission report shows a wide progression gap between post-16 choices made by bright poor kids and their affluent peers.
Adult training is often only available to workers who are highly paid or skilled with those with the lowest qualifications losing out on training.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).