THE SOCIAL SCOPES MEASUREMENT STANDARD

“The Purpose Coalition set itself a challenge of finding the data that Britain needs from employers - whether large or small - to finally give us an ongoing measure of our progress on improving social mobility. This built on the crucial initial work of the Equality of Opportunity Coalition that I launched, and have led, with former Social Mobility Commission Co-Chair Steven Cooper CBE.

On this vital project, over the course of the year, working with my co-chair Angela Halliday of Sodexo UK&I, we have brought together employers from the private and public sector and across a range of different industry sectors to crack the social mobility measurement challenge. With invaluable input from our Business Leadership Advisory Council, comprised of our inspiring leaders from across The Purpose Coalition, we believe we have succeeded.

There is more work to do, but we believe we have identified a measurement standard, the ‘Social Scopes’ that can open up the employer black box on access to opportunity and provide the crucial missing piece of insight to finally shift the dial on creating a Britain with equality of opportunity.”

Rt Hon Justine Greening, Chair of the Purpose Coalition and Former Secretary of State for Education