The commission's posts have been left vacant since last December, when chair Alan Milburn and the three other members walked out in protest at the Government's failure to take tackling social mobility seriously.
In a new report on the Future of the Social Mobility Commission (SMC) the committee calls for the SMC to have greater resources and powers to enable it to publish social justice impact assessments on Government policies and to advise ministers on social justice issues, rather than just at their request as is currently the case.
Publication of the report follows evidence sessions with former members of the SMC including its chair Alan Milburn, who resigned from the post in December. Reasons for Mr Milburn’s resignation included roles on the SMC being left vacant for almost two years and his belief that the Government was ‘unable to devote the necessary energy and focus to the social mobility agenda’.
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