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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Jasmine Norden

‘Little progress’ made opening up top jobs to state-educated people – charity

The Sutton Trust is calling for employers to be required to report on the economic backgrounds of their workforce (PA) - (PA Archive)

The privately educated are “maintaining a vice-like grip” on the top jobs in Britain, a charity has said, and is calling for employers to be required to report on the economic backgrounds of their workforce.

The Sutton Trust has found the most influential people in the UK remain five times more likely to have gone to a private school than the general population in its report Elitist Britain, similar to what the social mobility charity found in 2019.

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