Social Mobility Committee - publications

Inquiry by the Social Mobility Committee, 27 July 2015 to 9 December 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Report - Overlooked and left behind: improving the transition from school to work for the majority of young people (8 April 2016)
Government’s Response to the House of Lords Select Committee report on social mobility in the transition from school to work (7 July 2016)

Evidence sessions

8 July 2015: Dr Abigail McKnight, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Dr Claire Crawford, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Moira McKerracher, Deputy Director, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills
8 July 2015: Juliet Chua, Director Post-16 and Disadvantage Group, Department for Education; Peter Clark, Head of Participation and Careers Unit, Department for Education; Andrew Battarbee, Deputy Director, Vocational Education Strategy, Department for Education and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; and Oliver Newton, Head of the Apprenticeship Growth, Strategy and Legislation Team, Department for Education and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
15 July 2015: Professor Andy Green, Director, ESRC Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES), Institute of Education, University College London, Professor Paul Gregg, Professor of Economic and Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Analysis and Social Policy, University of Bath, and Professor Ken Roberts, Professor of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool
15 July 2015: Rt Hon Mr Nick Clegg MP
22 July 2015: Ralph Scott, Senior Researcher, Demos, Alex Burghart, Director of Policy, Centre for Social Justice, and Spencer Thompson, Senior Economic Analyst, Institute for Public Policy Research.
14 October 2015: Mr Neil Carberry, Director for Employment and Skills, CBI, Mr Tony Moloney, Head of Employment and Skills, National Grid, Ms Tanith Dodge, HR Director, Marks & Spencer and Ms Emma Codd, Managing Partner for Talent, Deloitte.
14 October 2015: Peter Grant, Senior Fellow, CASS Business School, Nick Chambers, Director, Education and Employers Taskforce, and Professor Ewart Keep, University of Oxford.
21 October 2015: Mr James Magowan, Business Director (East of England), Tomorrow’s People, Mr Sam Monaghan, Executive Director, Children’s Services, Barnardo’s, and Ms Maggie Walker, CEO, ASDAN
21 October 2015: Ms Alice Memminger, Chief Executive, UpRising, Mr David Pollard, Chairman for Education, Skills and Business Support, Federation of Small Businesses, and Ms Anne Spackman, OBE, Executive Director, Career Ready.
28 October 2015: Mr David Nicoll, director, Studio Schools Trust and Mr Charles Parker, chief executive, Baker Dearing Educational Trust (University Technical Colleges)
28 October 2015: Ms Pat Brennan-Barrett, principal of Northampton College, Association of Colleges and Mr Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary, Association of School and College Leaders
11 November 2015: Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills, and Matthew Coffey, Chief Operating Officer, Ofsted
11 November 2015: Dawn Baxendale, Chief Executive, Southampton Council, Yolande Burgess, Strategy Director, London Councils, Theresa Grant, Chief Executive, Trafford Council, and Andrew Hodgson, Vice-Chair of North East LEP Board, and North East LEP Employment and Skills Board
18 November 2015: Professor Anne Green, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, Professor Sandra McNally, Director of the Centre for Vocational Education Research, LSE, and Dr Stefan Speckesser, Chief Economist at the Institute for Employment Studies, LSE
18 November 2015: Professor Baroness Wolf of Dulwich CBE, author of the Wolf report
25 November 2015: Claire Keane, Economist, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
2 December 2015: The Rt Hon Alan Milburn, Chair, and Jack Feintuck, Head of Policy, Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
2 December 2015: Professor Ann Hodgson, Professor of Post-Compulsory Education and Co-Director, Centre for Post-14 Education and Work, UCL Institute of Education, and Professor Kevin Orr, School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield
9 December 2015: The Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education, and Nick Boles MP, Minister of State for Skills