'We want to promote a broader view of social mobility, for a wider range of people, who want to improve their lives, sometimes in smaller steps”
Katharine Birbalsingh is to argue that there is too much focus on poorer people getting into top universities and elite jobs.
"We want to move away from the notion that social mobility should just be about the 'long' upward mobility from the bottom to the top - the person who is born into a family in social housing and becomes a banker or CEO," Ms Birbalsingh, who is also headteacher of Michaela School in London, is expected to say.
Speaking at an event hosted by Policy Exchange, she will add that there is no "one size fits all model of social mobility". Ms Birbalsingh and Alun Francis, her deputy, will argue that the widening of access to university has not always helped social mobility while the 50% of pupils who do not go on to higher education have suffered from a lack of public attention.
Ms Birbalsingh will argue that social mobility is not getting worse and that the picture is more "complex", with the latest analysis from the Social Mobility Commission revealing that occupational mobility has been stable or improving slightly for decades, although there is less consensus on other areas such as income and housing, which the SMC intends to explore next year.
The SMC State of the Nation 2022 report will be published later in June and will set out a framework to revise how social mobility has traditionally been measured. A new social mobility index will track social mobility by occupation, income and other outcomes across the UK.
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