The All Party Group On Social Mobility has published a report which advises that social mobility in Britain is the worst in the Western world and the gap between rich and poor has become ingrained in children as young as three.
It quotes an OECD study showing that the prospects of half of all children born in the UK can be almost entirely linked to the circumstances of their parents – compared to only 15 per cent of those in Denmark. The Group calls for more intervention in the lives of under-threes and advises that the biggest impact on social mobility was the quality of parenting, whether the home environment was educational and whether the parents had good mental health.
The report and a video of a presentation "Seven Truths About Social Mobility" are available to view here: http://www.appg-socialmobility.org/
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