State of the Nation 2024: Local to National, Mapping Opportunities for All
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The Social Mobility Commission published its 2024 annual State of the Nation report, presenting updated social mobility statistics across 203 UK local authority areas using the new Social Mobility Index. The report introduces the Index of Promising Prospects for young people aged 25-44 and three enabler indices covering Conditions of Childhood, Labour Market Opportunities, and Innovation and Growth. Data is broken down by protected characteristics including sex, ethnicity, and disability, accessible via an accompanying online tool.
What changed
The Social Mobility Commission published its annual State of the Nation 2024 report pursuant to section 8B(6) of the Life Chances Act 2010. The report expands the UK breakdown from 41 regions to 203 local-authority areas using an updated Social Mobility Index methodology. It presents one composite index (Index of Promising Prospects for ages 25-44) and three enabler indices covering childhood conditions, labour market opportunities, and innovation and growth.
This report is informational and does not create compliance obligations for any sector. Policymakers, local authorities, and stakeholders may use the index data to identify areas with highest and lowest social mobility prospects. The report and accompanying online tool provide a resource for understanding social mobility patterns rather than imposing regulatory requirements.
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State of the Nation 2024: Local to national, mapping opportunities for all
The Social Mobility Commission's annual report on the state of social mobility in the UK.
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Chapter 3: Mobility across the UK
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Presented to Parliament pursuant to section 8B(6) of the Life Chances Act 2010
The Social Mobility Commission (SMC) reports on social mobility across the UK, in its annual report, State of the Nation 2024: Local to National, Mapping Opportunities for All.
The report builds further on the new Social Mobility Index by breaking the UK down to local authority level, so we can see where social mobility is working best and worst and prospects are highest and lowest.
It also provides breakdowns by protected characteristics such as sex, ethnicity and disability. These breakdowns are featured mainly on our accompanying online tool.
Main points
Our long-term vision is to report a consistent set of social mobility statistics over time – our Social Mobility Index. In line with this, we have created a new website to host it, and we have also updated most of the statistics reported there since last year’s report.
Our new approach has allowed us to split the UK into 203 local-authority areas, instead of the 41 regions we had last year.
We now have one composite index of social mobility for young people aged 25 to 44, and 3 indices covering the drivers (enablers) of social mobility.
Our composite index for the intermediate outcomes of young people is referred to as the ‘Index of Promising Prospects’.
The indices for the drivers are ‘Conditions of Childhood’, ‘Labour Market Opportunities for Young People’, and ‘Innovation and Growth’.
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Published 11 September 2024
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