CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Is mobility going backwards?

The Government’s plans for education could undermine hopes for tacking poverty and improving social mobility, says Chris Waterman.

Key elements of the Government's plans for education could undermine its hopes for tacking poverty and improving social mobility, suggests Chris Waterman.

I spent Easter in Lewes, East Sussex, where the radical pamphleteer, Tom Paine, lived for some years before he left for the New World where, in 1776, he published Common sense, a simple, dramatic and catalytic call for America to declare its independence.

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