The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus
on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around
social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact
on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting
social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact
on social mobility · Provide greater routes for
degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal
on the impact the built environment has
on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.
Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust warned: «Any future finance system that deters poorer students from top
degree courses because of spiralling costs and freezes
on student numbers will be a double blow for
social mobility.
YLAL has concerns about the potential effect the proposed changes will have
on social mobility, diversity and the accessibility of the profession, and feels that the SRA has failed to provide sufficient information about the anticipated cost of the SQE and the effect its introduction would have
on the status of undergraduate law
degrees and the Legal Practice Course.