Read: Law firms sign up to social mobility and Black interns initiatives
Fifteen City law firms have joined a partnership with the Social Mobility Pledge to offer opportunities to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Meanwhile, more than 20 law firms and five sets of chambers have joined the Law Society and Bar Council in signing up to the #10000BlackInterns programme to improve diversity.
The Social Mobility Pledge was set up by former education secretary Justine Greening and entrepreneur David Harrison in 2018 to tackle Britain’s lack of social mobility.
To become accredited, employers have to partner directly with schools or colleges through careers advice, work experience or mentoring.
They need to provide ‘structured work experience’ and/or apprenticeship opportunities to people from disadvantaged backgrounds and adopt recruitment practices which ‘promote a level playing-field’.
