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The Independent View: Educational disadvantage is one of the most unjust and...
The link between family income and educational attainment is greater in the UK than in almost any other developed country. We must all be concerned with a situation where 96% of young people educated...
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It’s been said that Margaret Thatcher’s governments did two things for poverty. First they increased it. Then they pretended it did not exist. As Alan Milburn prepares to makes his first speech as the...
View ArticleJeremy Browne: absolutely right
From an interview the Liberal Democrat Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne gave the Evening Standard this week: I think there is a danger that we are defined by a relatively small set of issues that...
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Farewell alarm clocks and hello John Major: Nick Clegg’s new strategy
In his speech yesterday Nick Clegg said, “We want a truly open society, in which every man and woman will be able to go as far as their talent, ambition and effort take them”. Oh wait, hang on. Sorry,...
View ArticleThe Independent View: Now is not the time to debate niceties about...
In an attempt to repair his Party’s battered poll ratings and diminished credibility following the veto and its aftermath, Nick Clegg has launched the concept of the ‘Open Society’ into the public...
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Nick Clegg’s social mobility drive wins backing from banks and law firms
The Evening Standard reports: Banks and law firms in London today backed Nick Clegg’s campaign to open up recruitment to all social backgrounds. The Deputy Prime Minister announced that Barclays, HSBC,...
View ArticleNick Clegg: Nanny state? No. State nannies? Yes
Interviewed in today’s Independent on Sunday, Nick Clegg has called for 65,000 nursery workers to be recruited as part of his social mobility drive: “Every parent wants their child to do better than...
View ArticleBaroness Tyler writes… To improve social mobility, we need to shine a...
One of the fascinating things I have discovered since joining the Lib Dem group in the Lords last year is the profusion of all party groups in Parliament on virtually every subject under the sun. There...
View Article‘Nick Clegg sets out plans to break private schools’ grip on establishment’
Nick Clegg has long championed the pupil premium, new money allocated to schools to help boost the educational chances of children from the most disadvantaged backgrounds. Today’s Guardian reports how...
View ArticleThe Independent View: social mobility begins at birth
As Nick Clegg bangs the social mobility drum today at the Sutton Trust announcing social trackers to measure fairness in society, we welcome his re-affirmation that social mobility matters. At Family...
View ArticleLDVideo: Clegg – Britain must shake off ‘snobbish’ class attitudes
Nick Clegg today spoke of his aim to boost social mobility at a conference organised by the Sutton Trust, arguing Britain must create an open society “where what matters most is the person you become,...
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The Liberal Democrats need a core votes strategy
Nick Clegg’s summer tour has one major aim: to reassure, to charm and to motivate Liberal Democrat members and supporters. The risk is that it is done on the basis that all he needs do is meet people,...
View ArticleIs education the key to social mobility?
We’ve all read the statistics: in the United Kingdom, 7% of the population who were educated in independent schools make up 95% of our politicians, judges, journalists and business bosses. And let’s...
View ArticleNick Clegg gives the William Beveridge lecture
[View the story "Nick Clegg gives the William Beveridge lecture" on Storify] Nick Clegg gives the William Beveridge lecture Speaking at the at Social Liberal Forum Conference 2012 on Saturday morning,...
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The Independent View: Fair access to the professions – where the legal...
Shortly after becoming Deputy Prime Minister in 2010, Nick Clegg made an important speech in which he said that the Government’s agenda would be to create “a more prosperous economy and a fairer… more...
View ArticleBaroness Tyler writes… Developing character and resilience in young people
The Social Mobility All Party Parliamentary Group have been working since 2011 to get an in-depth understanding of what it is that enables some people to get ahead in life whilst others fall behind and...
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“Is the coalition government doing enough to encourage social mobility?”
That was the question I was asked to answer for a new magazine, The New Idealist (available online here). Here’s what I said… Social mobility: it’s a phrase much-beloved by politicians from all three...
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Nick Clegg launches Opening Doors Awards
Nick Clegg has long championed improving life chances for those from disadvantaged backgrounds. As he said on this morning’s Call Clegg: My dad helped me. I was very lucky. But is shouldn’t be all...
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Nick Clegg’s Letter from the Leader: ‘Opening Doors’ so that every young...
Nick Clegg has made social mobility — the aim that everyone should be able to make of their lives what they want regardless of where they come from — his driving mission as Deputy Prime Minister. It’s...
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Nick Clegg welcomes Milburn social mobility and child poverty report
Presenting a report laid before parliament today, the coalition’s social mobility tsar Alan Milburn said “child poverty is a problem for working families rather than the workless or the work-shy.”...
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