Social mobility claims premature says expert

摘要

Government claims that social mobility may finally be increasing across the UK's communities may be premature, an expert has claimed. Paul Gregg, a leading academic on social mobility, said it would be 'years before the evidence is clear'. For years, the Labour Government has accepted social mobility has stagnated since it came to power. But Cabinet Office minister, Liam Byrne, announced on 3 November 'things look like they're starting to improve'. Mr Byrne spoke following the publication of research, entitled Getting on, getting ahead, which indicated that, after 30 years of stagnant mobility, Whitehall and local authorities might finally have kick-started improvements. According to Mr Byrne, the green shoots of revival can be seen across the education sector, where the family background of GCSE students appears to have become less directly linked to attainment. Education is proven to have a key effect on life chances.