What Is Your Role In Encouraging Social Mobility?

The opening words of the new social mobility report launched by the All Party Parliamentary Group on this topic area states that the report was produced to "discuss and promote the cause of social mobility; to raise issues of concern and help inform policy makers and formers". Whilst the above objectives are certainly admirable, I guess it also helps to highlight the fact that the UK has not progressed as effectively as we all would have liked in regards to creating a fairer platform for all groups to push on in life. We remain in economically hard times with very high levels of unemployment. Upon this backdrop we must ask ourselves whether or not there is truly an appetite to get Britain socially mobile amongst those who have power. There is a great difference between the words appetite and desire. One can live with a desire to have something, but an appetite is a lot harder to ignore.