In United Kingdom, social mobility declining

An impartial commission should be created to examine the reasons behind the United Kingdom's very low social mobility, an education charity says. The Sutton Trust says the government's education policy has failed to give poorer children the chance to improve their quality of life. Trust founder Sir Peter Lampl said "It is a national issue which requires a national solution. We urgently need ... to examine why our record is so poor and how we can address this." The study found that children born in the 1950s had a better chance of escaping poverty than those born in 1970. The Sutton Trust says better provision of early years education is needed to prevent children falling behind by the age of three. Read the article at BBC News.