Children and Young People: Social Mobility

(asked on 21st June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what process his Department has in place to measure social mobility in children and young people from primary school age to (a) leaving education and (b) entering higher education.


Answered by
Robin Walker Portrait
Robin Walker
This question was answered on 29th June 2022

The department monitors key metrics internally and publishes data on outcomes of children and young people from early years to post-16. This includes breakdowns of data by disadvantaged and vulnerable cohorts, and by regions and local authority.

The most relevant measures that the department tracks by these cohorts are described below, with links to the latest statistical publications:

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