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  • Business Compact signatories

    150 businesses have already signed up to the Business Compact, from a wide range of sectors including legal, retail, finance and energy.

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  • Bridging the Social Divide Report

    The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission has published a report calling for social mobility and child poverty to be core business in the next Parliament

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  • UK employers set a new benchmark for social mobility

    The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced 12 Social Mobility Business Compact 'Champions'.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • State of the Nation 2014 Report published

    The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission has published its second annual State of the Nation 2014 Report

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  • Cracking the Code report published

    The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission has published a report on Cracking the code: how schools can improve social mobility

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  • Elitist Britain? report published

    The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission has published a report on social mobility: Elitist Britain?

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  • SMCPC research on attainment of disadvantaged children

    Disadvantaged children who start out as high-attainers are overtaken by their better-off peers who were initially average-attainers.

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  • Pupil Premium Awards 2014

    Pupil Premium Awards reward schools that have used their pupil premium in new or especially effective ways to help disadvantaged pupils.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New research on improved results for disadvantaged London pupils

    The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission publishes research on the factors behind improved results for disadvantaged London pupils.

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  • Commission publishes response to the draft child poverty strategy

    The Social Mobility and Child Poverty (SMCP) Commission today publishes its assessment of the UK government’s draft child poverty strategy.

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  • Social mobility - help young people on the road to employment

    The Social Mobility Business Compact wants to ensure that all young people have fair and open access to employment opportunities.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Deputy Prime Minister launches Diversity Programme

    The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, launches the Naz Legacy Foundation’s Diversity Programme at the National Portrait Gallery.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Nick Clegg on International Women's Day 2014

    The Deputy Prime Minister has recorded a video of support for International Women's Day 2014 on 8 March.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Inspiring the next generation of budding female entrepreneurs

    New partnership with Young Enterprise to help female students in tourism and creative industries turn their business dreams into a reality

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Nick Clegg announces 1.55 million more children to receive a free school meal

    An estimated 1.55 million additional infants across the country will benefit from a free school meal from September 2014.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • High court rules local authority must consider funding for a traveller child when travelling

    Commission welcomes High Court decision that a local authority must support a 3-year old, disabled child from a traveller family, even when his family are working in other parts of Britain.

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  • Nick Clegg announces funding details for free school meals

    The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has announced £1 billion for the Department of Education to fund the free school meals commitment.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Business Compact partners

    If you are a student, teacher, parent or employer, the following information about our partners may be useful.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Living standards, working poverty and social mobility

    In a speech to the Resolution Foundation Alan Milburn calls for more action to restore the link between economic growth and earnings

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  • Slaughter and May - winner of 2013 Opening Doors Award

    Slaughter and May won the Opening Doors Award for Best Outreach Programme.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government