Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission

The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission is an advisory Non-Departmental Public Body of the Department for Education. It was created by the Child Poverty Act 2010,[1] as amended by the Welfare Reform Act 2012.[2]

Its role is "to monitor the progress of the United Kingdom government and others in improving social mobility and reducing child poverty".[3]

Responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission include:

  • Publishing an annual report setting out its views on progress made in improving social mobility and reducing child poverty in the UK, including against the targets in the Child Poverty Act 2010, and describing the measures taken by the Scottish and Welsh governments.
  • Providing published advice to ministers (at their request), including on how to measure socio-economic disadvantage, social mobility and child poverty.
  • Acting as an advocate for social mobility beyond government by challenging employers, the professions and universities, amongst others, to play their part in improving life chances.

The formal Terms of Reference for the Commission are published on its website[4]

Commissioners

On 3 December 2017 the board of the Social Mobility Commission which included two former cabinet ministers — one Tory and one Labour — resigned after concluding that the government’s focus on Brexit means that its ability to tackle social mobility “is zero”[5].

Key Publications

Since being made fully operational with the appointment of its Commissioners in December 2012[6] the Commission has published a number of reports, pieces of advice and research:[7]

  • Measuring child poverty consultation: Commission response (advice to Government)
  • Higher Education: the Fair Access Challenge (social mobility advocacy)
  • Public attitudes research on social mobility (research)
  • Social mobility: the next steps (social mobility advocacy)
  • Business and Social Mobility: A Manifesto for Change (social mobility advocacy)
  • Mapping the Occupational Destinations of New Graduates (research)
  • State of the Nation 2013 (annual monitoring report, laid before the UK Parliament on 17 October 2013[8])

References

  1. ↑ http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/9/section/8
  2. ↑ http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/5/section/145
  3. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/social-mobility-and-child-poverty-commission
  4. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/social-mobility-and-child-poverty-commission/about/terms-of-reference
  5. ↑ "Theresa May 'betrays' families that voted for Brexit, says Alan Milburn". The Sunday TImes. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  6. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-appointments-to-the-social-mobility-and-child-poverty-commission
  7. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=social-mobility-and-child-poverty-commission
  8. ↑ https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2013-10-17a.82.2
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