Aptitude not background

The results of the fifth Employer Index, announced this week, rank organisations on how they are driving social mobility within their workplace. The past five years of the Index have shown positive progress such as ring-fencing internships for people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, addressing social mobility strategy at board level, and working with clients to improve social mobility through the supply chain.

Alan Milburn, chair of the Social Mobility Foundation, said: ‘All of the employers represented in the Index are showing that it is possible to create a society where it is not background or birth but aptitude and ability that dictate progress in life.’