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The Academy's Diversity Programme Social Mobility
**Fair Access to Professional Careers: A progress
report (2012): Three years on from Unleashing
Aspiration, equity of access to professional
careers remains an important part of the social
mobility jigsaw. Unleashing Aspirations identified 6
key areas for improvement - this report is a
stocktake of progress on those themes as they relate
directly to the professions
**Unleashing Potential: Summary and
Recommendations of the Full Report (2009): The
Panel on Fair Access to the Professions was
established to advise on how we can make a
professional career genuinely open to as wide a pool
of talent as possible. The report makes detailed
recommendations how the UK can realise the social
and economic benefits of the forthcoming expansion
in professional employment in our country
The Social Mobility Toolkit for the Professions
(2012) - the first common framework to measure
the progress of social mobility within the
professions, was commissioned by Professions for
Good and put together by Spada. It provides
recommendations for employer organisations of all
sizes, as well as professional bodies and
regulators, on how they can track and foster social
mobility.
The Social Mobility Toolkit for the Professions
Seven Truths About Social Mobility (2012) -
All party parliamentary interim report on 7 key
characteristics of social mobility and implications
for policy makers
Seven Truths About Social Mobility
Against the Odds – disadvantaged students who
succeed in school (2011) – An Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report
which focuses on resilient students; those who
succeed at school despite a disadvantaged
background. These individuals show what is possible
and provide students, parents, policy makers and
other education stakeholders with insights into the
drivers of skills and competencies among
socio-economically disadvantaged students
Against the Odds – disadvantaged students who succeed in school
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