Data & Strategy:
Benchmarking your progress on social mobility

The Social Mobility Employer Index, led by The Social Mobility Foundation, is a useful tool for benchmarking your progress, sharing initiatives and receiving bespoke feedback.

The Index is an important bench-marking initiative that ranks Britain’s employers for the first time on the actions they are taking to ensure they are open to accessing and progressing talent from all backgrounds and it showcases progress towards improving social mobility.

Research has consistently shown that people from more affluent backgrounds take a disproportionate number of the best jobs and that employers tend to disproportionately employ graduates who went to private schools and elite universities.

The aim of the Index is to encourage firms to share their initiatives and progress in becoming more inclusive employers and to reveal which sectors and companies are taking the issue of social mobility most seriously.

Read more about entering the index.