Sentences with phrase «committee on social mobility»

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Speaking at the House of Lords Social Mobility Select Committee, Wilshaw suggested too many head teachers are focussed on keeping school budgets strong rather than providing the best opportunities for pupils.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, Mr Hinds once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister and Ms Greening.

Social mobility was a key theme of Education Select Committee's evidence check on grammar schools held on 8 November and statistics quoted suggested that only 2.5 per cent of pupils in grammar schools are on free school meals, compared to an average of nine per cent of the school population in the same areas.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, he once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister, and his immediate predecessor, Justine Greening.

The education committee has said that the social mobility commission should be given the power to publish impact assessments on social injustice in legislative proposals.

Both councillors are on the Kent County Council committee set up to tackle social mobility in the county's grammars.

Labour's Lucy Powell, who sits on the education select committee, said with wages not rising, unaffordable housing and job insecurity, social mobility seemed to be going backwards.

He sat on the parliamentary education committee between 2010 and 2012 and chaired the all - part parliamentary group for social mobility.