UK’s industrial regions face ‘entrenched disadvantages’ going back decades | Social mobility
The latest social mobility research has found that former industrial communities in Britain face “entrenched disadvantages” dating back decades.
This raises particular concerns about the increasing number of young people aged 16-24 who are not in education, employment or training (Neets), which will reach one in seven between 2022 and 2024.
Social Mobility Commission’s state of the country The report also highlighted “extreme regional disparities” when it comes to childhood conditions, fewer job opportunities, less innovation and lack of growth.
The report stated that Yorkshire, the northeast, the Midlands, Wales and Scotland are still living with the effects of deindustrialization and referred to “half a century of economic disadvantage and decline”.
But it also identified “silver linings” where there are favorable conditions for innovation and growth in the future. Aberdeen, Brighton, Bristol, Cheshire West and Chester, Edinburgh, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire and Manchester.
Commission chairman Alun Francis said economic opportunities were “overly concentrated” in certain places, although there were positive signs in some areas.
“Entire communities, mostly living in post-industrial seaside towns, have been left behind with deep-seated disadvantages. This is the defining social mobility problem of our generation,” he said.
The report, the largest collection and analysis of data on social mobility in the UK, recognizes that 48.2 per cent of young people aged 25-29 in professional careers will be in good jobs by 2022-24, compared to 36.1% in 2014-16. But it also highlighted a widening gap between those from privileged backgrounds and those from working-class backgrounds who take these jobs.
Women from less affluent backgrounds continue to have more difficulty getting into higher-paying jobs than privileged women, according to the commission, a legal advisory body that reports on social mobility across the UK and makes recommendations on England.
International comparisons in the report show the UK stands alongside countries such as France and Japan in offering young people a good chance of surpassing their parents’ educational attainment.
It also found that the UK has similar job mobility rates to other major Western European countries such as Germany and Sweden, where fewer people are moving on to better jobs as growth in professional roles slows.
Annual report is published after the commission He gave evidence to parliament last week It’s about what success looks like for people living in Britain today.
It turns out that people value professional or managerial occupations, or even earning a high income, less than they value work-life balance, job security, and doing work they care about.
The measures they see as most important are health, physical and mental well-being, relationships with family and friends, education and social connectedness. Owning a home and having savings were also liked by respondents who said they did not believe life in the UK was “fair”.
Statistics this is evidence found that people view class identity as “sticky” and that more than three in four people identify as the same class as their parents.
Those currently at the top of the social class ladder were more interested in climbing that ladder than those at the bottom.
