Nursery World - Relaunched Social Mobility Commission finds 'deep unease' about gap between rich and poor

Findings from a survey by the Social Mobility Commission, which relaunched today, reveal that people want the Government and schools to do more to help the less advantaged.

The Commission, whose former chair and members quit a year ago because of lack of action from the Government, will now be chaired by Dame Martina Milburn, group chief executive of the Prince’s Trust, who has appointed 12 commissioners from ‘diverse’ backgrounds. Three of the commissioners are under 23 years of age.

Commissioners include editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Farrah Storr, volunteer and part-time sales assistant at Marks & Spencer Harvey Mathewson, the founder of Broody, which helps entrepreneurs and start-ups, Liz Williams, and associate professor in sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) Sam Friedman.

The Government has also committted to giving the Commission an extra £2 million in April to fund its research.

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