Today the The Sutton Trust publishes a (costed) roadmap for the next Government to break the link between background and opportunity. 🔽As our new polling with More in Common shows, there is broad public support for policies to level the playing field:

Still finalising our numbers, but looks like we're at around 63% of the new House of Commons having attended comprehensives, the highest on record, and up from 54% in 2019. Almost three quarters of Labour MPs attended a comp, compared to 42% of Cons in 2019. Full report soon!

Congratulations to all the MPs elected in yesterday's #GeneralElection🗳️ 👇The 2024 Commons intake has the highest proportion of MPs educated at comprehensive schools the The Sutton Trust has ever recorded:

🚨 THE NEW CABINET 🚨 The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has appointed his cabinet. This new cabinet marks a historic moment in British politics, with a record number of state-educated Ministers and the lowest proportion of privately educated Ministers since 1945 🧵👇

Three in four children in poverty in Great Britain now have a Labour MP.

The attainment gap doesn't disappear at age 16, so neither should support to disadvantaged students:

We are deeply concerned at the recent disorder and racist attacks targeting Muslims and ethnic minorities. The Sutton Trust exists to provide opportunity for all. Any form of discrimination, including Islamophobia and racism, must be actively tackled and stamped out by us all.

Team GB 🇬🇧 had another really successful Olympics! 🥳 To ensure continued success, we need to ensure all young people have access to sporting opportunities:

It’s #ResultsDay2024 for Level 3 qualifications (A Level and equivalent) today. This year group have faced considerable disruption. With Ofqual again looking to return grading back to pre-pandemic standards this year, what do we know about the results so far? 🧵

Ultimately poverty is the root cause of the attainment gap between rich and poor. Rebecca Montacute on the world at one. The Sutton Trust 👇

School leaders, governors & teachers are jointly calling on govt to scrap the two-child benefit limit. As a new school year begins, they say: - opportunity mission will be undermined with two-child limit in place - classrooms are full of hungry kids - schools can't mitigate this

🚨 NEW: For the first time, we can reveal school by school information on how secondary pupil intakes reflect their local community. Our accompanying analysis looks at which local authorities in England have the most and least socially segregated schools ⬇️🧵

🧵This morning we have been named as a core participant for Module 8 of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry. This module will look at Children and Young People, and we will contributing based on evidence from our research throughout the pandemic as well as findings from COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities Study.

We are delighted to host our fringe event at #CPC24, asking our expert panel "Where next for social mobility?" See below for live updates from Gagan Mohindra MP, The Centre for Social Justice, Children's Commissioner for England and our own Carl Cullinane ⬇️

🚨 Come join our team! 🚨 We're hiring for a 1 year fixed term Research and Policy Officer - 💰 £31k-£35k 🖥️ Hybrid (London/remote) ⏲️Deadline: 9am, Monday 28th October recruitment.suttontrust.com/jobs/5082820-r…

💼 Budget 2024 💼 The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered the Labour Party’s first Budget since 2010, setting out the Government's key priorities for this Parliament. Read our analysis of what the #Budget2024 means for education and social mobility 🧵⬇️

For my few followers who aren't bots, I've made a Bluesky account, see you there! bsky.app/profile/ryangf…

Today is the first substantive meeting of the Social Mobility APPG, follow the page for updates and future events!