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Social mobility under the coalition government: have the life chances of the poorest children improved?

Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741 and Lupton, Ruth (2015) Social mobility under the coalition government: have the life chances of the poorest children improved? British Politics and Policy at LSE (06 Mar 2015). Website.

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Abstract

The coalition government has consistently emphasised greater social mobility as one of its central goals. But its attempts to improve life chances for disadvantaged children have been undermined by tax-benefit reforms that have reduced family incomes, and by cuts to services for pre-school children, say Kitty Stewart and Ruth Lupton.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy
Additional Information: © 2015 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance
J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2017 12:10
Last Modified: 01 Apr 2024 07:53
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/72591

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