Department for Opportunities (@dept_for_opps) 's Twitter Profile
Department for Opportunities

@dept_for_opps

🚀 The advocacy and campaigns team at @SocialMobilityF 📈 Here to DO something about low social mobility

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linkhttps://www.socialmobility.org.uk/campaigns calendar_today14-01-2020 13:34:39

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Know what’s even harder to get into than #Glastonbury? High-status professions like banking, law and medicine. But this is only true if your parents did manual routine jobs when you grew up. Today, only 1 in 8 professionals are from working-class backgrounds.

Know what’s even harder to get into than #Glastonbury?

High-status professions like banking, law and medicine. 

But this is only true if your parents did manual routine jobs when you grew up. Today, only 1 in 8 professionals are from working-class backgrounds.
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🙌 We are delighted to announce that Thomas James won Best Director at the Creative Circle Awards last night. ✊ We're so proud of Thomas’s work on STAY DOWN, shedding a light on the insidious force of classism in British workplaces. 👀 Watch the film ⤵️staydown.co.uk

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Any results day can create many different emotions. On #GCSEResults2023, we're proud of everyone getting their grades. These pupils will be next year's new starters on our student programme. We can't wait to meet them! 💜

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The Social Mobility Commission has released #StateoftheNation2023. The report confirms that geography influences social mobility prospects as much as education, skills and what your parents or guardians do for work. Read more: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

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On National Mentoring Day, we’re delighted to celebrate the mentoring relationships we have with our partner Macquarie Group 🌟 In the past year, we have had 40 Macquarie employees volunteer to give back and change lives by mentoring a student on our Aspiring Professionals Programme.

On National Mentoring Day, we’re delighted to celebrate the mentoring relationships we have with our partner <a href="/Macquarie/">Macquarie Group</a> 🌟

In the past year, we have had 40 Macquarie employees volunteer to give back and change lives by mentoring a student on our Aspiring Professionals Programme.
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Employees from working class backgrounds earn on average almost £7k less than peers from privileged backgrounds - our chair Alan Milburn calls for mandatory reporting on workforce socioeconomic background for the biggest firms to drive progress on social mobility

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We agree! Celebrating working-class culture fosters belonging and ensures there is equity in education. Among our favourite films and books are Pride, Normal People and Educated by Tara Westover. What are yours? thetimes.co.uk/article/pupils…

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Britain’s workplaces share a shameful secret. 🤫 Professionals from working-class backgrounds are paid an average of 12% less each year than those from middle-class backgrounds. Despite being in the same occupation. But we can close the #ClassPayGap together. ⤵️

Britain’s workplaces share a shameful secret. 🤫

Professionals from working-class backgrounds are paid an average of 12% less each year than those from middle-class backgrounds. Despite being in the same occupation.

But we can close the #ClassPayGap together. ⤵️
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We need more mentors outside London ❗ Help us ensure young people don’t miss out on opportunities because of where they grew up 🚀 Are you a professional who lives in, or around, Glasgow, Liverpool, Newcastle or Cardiff? 📍 Sign-up today ⤵️ socialmobility.org.uk/sf-mentoring

We need more mentors outside London ❗

Help us ensure young people don’t miss out on opportunities because of where they grew up 🚀

Are you a professional who lives in, or around, Glasgow, Liverpool, Newcastle or Cardiff? 📍

Sign-up today ⤵️

socialmobility.org.uk/sf-mentoring
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Aged 16-24? We want to hear from you‼️ Outside of this age bracket? We want you to share 🗣️ Our survey will ask thousands of young people about their experiences, their hopes and concerns for the future and what they think needs to change. 👇 surveys.researchbods.com/survey/selfser…

Aged 16-24? We want to hear from you‼️

Outside of this age bracket? We want you to share 🗣️

Our survey will ask thousands of young people about their experiences, their hopes and concerns for the future and what they think needs to change.

👇

surveys.researchbods.com/survey/selfser…
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Dreaming of this being you one day? Worried about how to get into exclusive industries? 💭 Use your voice to call out inequality and shape your future. 📢 Fill in our survey! Outside of the age bracket? Please share with your networks💥 surveys.researchbods.com/survey/selfser… #BRITs

Dreaming of this being you one day? Worried about how to get into exclusive industries? 💭

Use your voice to call out inequality and shape your future. 📢 

Fill in our survey!

Outside of the age bracket? Please share with your networks💥

surveys.researchbods.com/survey/selfser…

#BRITs