Jon Trickett MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, responding to Nick Clegg's Business Compact announcement on social mobility today, said:

The Evening Standard reports: Banks and law firms in London today backed Nick Clegg’s campaign to open up recruitment to all social backgrounds. The Deputy Prime Minister announced that Barclays, HSBC, Credit Suisse, RBS and a string of other City institutions have signed up to his “business compact” on internships, work experience and recruitment… “This

More than 100 companies have signed up to new social mobility rules backed by deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in his bid to end the "who you know not what you know" culture.

Retailers, banks, law firms and energy groups are among more than 100 companies to have agreed measures including a pledge to advertise work experience places openly

This week Byrne was gifted the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report, a hard-headed impact assessment of tax and benefit changes that found children hit hardest and non-working lone parents losing £2,000 a year. Half a million families with children under 5 will fall into absolute (not relative) poverty, despite all Cameron’s mendacious “social mobility”

It’s been said that Margaret Thatcher’s governments did two things for poverty. First they increased it. Then they pretended it did not exist. As Alan Milburn prepares to makes his first speech as the Independent Reviewer on Social Mobility and Child Poverty on Tuesday, his task will be to help the Coalition avoid a similar,

As Tim Leunig pointed out last week, housing plays an important role in most people’s concept of social mobility, a point highlighted in Stephen Gilbert’s piece over the summer recounting his own personal circumstances: Last year I was probably the only MP to be elected while still living with my parents. Of course, I’d moved

One aspect of electoral registration, and the potential problems with making registration voluntary, is the knock-on effect on credit and social mobility. That was the aspect which Liberal Democrat peer (Lord) Chris Rennard took up during a debate in the Lords this week.

In its Social Mobility strategy launched last April, the government made clear the dual priorities shaping its agenda: “Tackling the financial deficit is the Coalition’s most immediate task. But tackling the opportunity deficit – creating an open, socially mobile society – is our guiding purpose.” These are strong words indeed, marking an unequivocal commitment to

Nick Clegg has launched a national internship scheme to increase social mobility, end inbuilt disadvantage and conform with the minimum wage. Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has been criticised this week by a leading national campaign, Graduate Fog, for recruiting unpaid interns. The climate is changing – and yet seemingly not in our own house. I