Call for social mobility to have bigger role in funding allocation

By Dan Peters | 11 August 2023

The Government should do more to ‘actively target’ council funding to low social mobility areas, the think-tank Onward has argued.

A new report said there was a ‘strong reason to believe’ it was an ‘oversimplification to use deprivation as a sole targeting instrument for funding’.

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