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December 2016

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Joan Garrod asks
whether this actually happened

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n November 2016 the Social Mobility Commission
presented its annual report to Parliament
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The opening words were: ‘Britain
has a deep social-mobility problem
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Those born in the 1960s, 1970s
and 1980s have lower incomes than their parents did

at the same age
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In Britain today, only
one in eight children from low-income families is likely
to become a high earner as an adult
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These are:
• an unfair education system
• a two-tier labour market
• an imbalanced economy
• an unaffordable housing market

Education
Despite some narrowing of the gap between the
achievements of those from poorer and better-off
backgrounds, the report points out that ‘from the early
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JAMs may
not be in
poverty, but
their financial
position is
precarious

years through to universities, there is an entrenched
and unbroken correlation between social class and
educational success
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The labour market
There is a growing gap between those with skills and
those without
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The report says that ‘they
have jobs but don’t have careers’
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The economy
People’s chances of success are increasingly influenced
by where they live
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This has resulted in what
the report terms the ‘socially hollowed-out’ towns,
cities and counties of ‘left-behind Britain’
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Home ownership rates among the under-44s have
fallen sharply, as their household incomes have grown
at only half the rate of their housing costs
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It is estimated that
there are some 6 million such families on low-tomiddle incomes, with at least one person in work
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The government’s response
Theresa May has said that it is a priority to help such
families, and has promised to introduce policies to do
so
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Questions
1 Which of the four barriers to social mobility is
the most important? Why?
2 Do schools do enough to equip people with
the skills needed for work? What else could
they do?
3 What does the report mean by ‘socially
hollowed-out’ towns and cities, and ‘leftbehind Britain’?
4 What are the advantages of a society with high
rates of upward social mobility?

Weblinks to follow up
The Social Mobility Commission’s November 2016
report can be found here: www
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com/gocvu37
‘Britain’s social mobility problem’, a special
report on BBC’s Newsnight programme:
www
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com/z7lnuoc

Watch Theresa May’s speech on social mobility and
grammar schools: www
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com/hwulxv4

‘Treadmill’ families and JAMs
The report identifies ‘treadmill’ families, who are not
in extreme poverty, usually have at least one person
in work, but who are ‘running harder and harder but
simply standing still’
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