🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found.
Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️
Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️
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The North East and North West are overrepresented among the lowest ranked areas, but the South East has the biggest gaps between areas.
They have very similar levels of free school meal eligibility (37% and 35% respectively) but the difference in prospects for social mobility between the two is stark.
We found drastic inequalities of opportunity across the South East of England, which is typically thought of as a prosperous region.
Across all regions, migration from one region to another is linked to higher earnings on average.
However, young people eligible for free school meals only benefited from this trend in London and the East of England.
Read the full report to get a complete picture of how access to opportunity varies across different areas of the country ⬇️
https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/the-opportunity-index/