Data for social mobility: improving the collection and availability of data across government
The following pages provide guidance and inspiration for how to implement a social mobility strategy, whether you are starting out on this journey or have ambitions to be among the best.
This research acts as an aspirational paper to stimulate discussion and engagement across the government. We provide a high-level overview of some of the challenges in the sharing and use of socio-economic data and highlight some of the benefits if these problems were addressed.
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