The Sutton Trust

🚨 NEW: Top performing secondary schools are effectively shutting out disadvantaged pupils with special educational needs. Our new polling suggests this is often a deliberate strategy to limit the numbers of these pupils coming through their school gates 🧵⤵️

You shouldn't have to change your accent to progress in your career. Our research highlights the prominence of accent bias, and how many people feel that their accent might limit their career prospects. More on their experiences of accent discrimination ⬇️ suttontrust.com/our-research/s…

💬 "We applied because we believe admissions should never be a barrier to opportunity." Read about the excellent work @orion_education have been doing to implement fairer admissions policies in their schools 👇 suttontrust.com/news-opinion/a…

📍 Our interactive map, updated with new data, offers rich insights into the socio-economic makeup of school intakes across England. Use it to see how schools represent their local community, including pupils on free school meals and those with SEND ⬇️ suttontrust.com/school-admissi…

✍️ "Access to opportunity shouldn’t come with the condition of having to leave everything behind." Bethany, a member of our Alumni Leadership Board, outlines why perceptions of social mobility need to broadened to cover a wider range of journeys 👇 suttontrust.com/news-opinion/a…

💬 "We chose to review our admissions policies — not for the award, but because it was right." In our latest guest blog, @orion_education CEO Simon Garrill discusses their efforts to champion opportunity and inclusion across their school community. suttontrust.com/news-opinion/a…

Apprenticeship starts up over the last 6 months, mainly driven by higher level: L4 (28k +17%), L5 (20k +23%), L6(20k +6%), L7(26k +50%;). Good news of sorts - but young people under 19 only 24% of starts. The system still isn't delivering for the young. @suttontrust Note, big spike in L7 partly driven by a last minute rush before the governments funding withdrawal. This policy aims to skew the system back towards young people and away from management training for existing employees. We'll see how it works in the coming months.

Surely we can provide school kids with proper lunches? Sounds like a niche point - but feels important to underline good food habits with school kids, and ensure proper nutrition to aid learning. Saving money on school lunches feels short-term and counter productive to me. @suttontrust

"Almost 1m young people aged 16-24 are NEET...The risk of being NEET is also over double if someone comes from a disadvantaged background and has low qualifications." Our thoughts on the Milburn Review following our submission to the call for evidence ⬇️ suttontrust.com/news-opinion/a…

✍️ "We cannot allow a two-tier education system to become the permanent status quo in the UK." Great to see Action Tutoring CEO, Jen Fox, fully support the recommendations from our latest report on unequal access to tutoring ⤵️ actiontutoring.org.uk/private-tutori…

@ReganCharley @alistrathern Every child deserves equal access to the best schools in their area. Families shouldn't have to fight the system to access the education and support their child needs. Thank you to all of our panellists and attendees for contributing to an extremely valuable discussion 👏

@ReganCharley @alistrathern Kristina Yates from Steplab was cautiously optimistic about the government's reforms, stressing the importance of policy implementation. She also welcomed more specialist staff in schools.

💡 Powerful and important discussions on the SEND system took place yesterday at our panel event on the government's proposed reforms. The event marked the launch of our research analysing the relationship between disadvantage and SEND in school admissions 🧵

💬 “Right now, too many young people aren’t able to get the support they need locally, and that’s a disgrace.” Our new research shows that top secondary schools are effectively shutting out local disadvantaged pupils with SEND ⤵️ suttontrust.com/our-research/s…

💬 "Across my years of work in social mobility and early careers, I had never encountered anything quite like the Sutton Trust’s Opportunity Bursary fund." Read about the power of our Opportunity Bursary and how it helps our students 👇 suttontrust.com/news-opinion/a…

@CoalitionEdCare The report includes a call for a 10 year workforce strategy to reform funding, increase pay, improve data collection, and set out clear career pathways to raise the status of the profession. If we want high-quality early education, we need to value the people delivering it.

A strong early years workforce is essential to children, families and the wider economy. New research from @CoalitionEdCare sets out pressures the workforce are facing today. earlyeducationchildcare.org/model-for-chan…

@educationgovuk Our findings suggest that greater investment in school staffing and in outside specialist support are needed to give the government the best chance of delivering on its ambitions - so this announcement is a step in the right direction.

We welcome @educationgovuk move to create more places in mainstream schools for children with SEND. A big focus of our recent research on SEND, disadvantage, and school admissions was on the need to increase capacity in mainstream schools ⬇️ theguardian.com/education/2026…

@resfoundation But this report demonstrates that a degree alone does not level the playing field. More needs to be done to help disadvantaged young people access degrees and careers with strong returns, and to mitigate the impact that child poverty has on a person's life chances.

@resfoundation Our research has repeatedly highlighted the major role universities play in driving social mobility and improving life chances for disadvantaged young people. University remains the dominant route to higher earnings. suttontrust.com/our-research/u…

Graduates who experienced poverty in childhood still face a significant earnings gap after a decade in work 👎 An important new report from @resfoundation reveals how childhood disadvantage shapes the earnings of university grads in England 🧵 resolutionfoundation.org/publications/t…