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Social mobility in the United Kingdom refers to the ability or inability of citizens of the UK to move from one socio-economic class to another. History [ edit ]
World map of the Global Social Mobility Index (2020). Below is the list of 82 countries ranked by their score in the inaugural Global Social Mobility Index 2020. [1] The value 100 was the highest possible score a country could receive. [1]
Ethnicity, Gender and Social Mobility (December 2016) Social Mobility, the Class Pay Gap and Intergenerational Worklessness: New Insights from the Labour Force Survey (January 2017) Helping Parents to Parent (February 2017) The Impacts of Family Support on Access to Homeownership for Young People in the UK (March 2017)
Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to social mobility and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.
Motability is a scheme run by a private company called Motability Operations Ltd, intended to enable disabled people, their families and their carers to lease a new car, scooter or powered wheelchair, using their disability benefit.
The National Centre for Social Research is a registered charity trading as NatCen Social Research and is the largest independent social research institute in the UK. [30] [31] [32] The research charity was founded in 1969 by Sir Roger Jowell [33] and Gerald Hoinville with the aim of carrying out rigorous social policy research to improve society.
In an effort to reform the 60-year-old legislation regarding social care in England, the Care Act 2014 received royal assent after being introduced on 9 May 2013. [11] The act details the local authorities' duties in relation to assessing the needs and eligibility of people for publicly funded care.
Lists of organisations based in British Overseas Territories (10 C) Lists of organisations based in England (3 C, 5 P) Lists of organisations based in Northern Ireland (1 C, 8 P)