The former former deputy prime minister, education secretary and shadow education secretary are leading a backbench business committee debate on social mobility today, in which they referred to findings from the Social Mobility Commission’s annual report that warned social mobility is getting worse.
According to the Commission’s State of the Nation report, published last November, by the age of five children from more disadvantaged backgrounds are already far behind their peers. It found that nearly half of low-income children do not reach a good level of development and in the last decade 500,000 poorer children were not ‘school-ready’ by the age of five.
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