Alun Francis
@alunfrancis.bsky.social
Chief Executive, Blackpool and the Fylde College and Chair, Social Mobility Commission.
Reposted by Alun Francis
"IPPR’s ‘State of the North 2025’ brings important focus on the specific challenges faced by many young people in the north of England"
@alunfrancis.bsky.social, Chair of the Social Mobility Commission, has welcomed our report highlighting the need to spread opportunity fairly across the country ⤵️
@alunfrancis.bsky.social, Chair of the Social Mobility Commission, has welcomed our report highlighting the need to spread opportunity fairly across the country ⤵️
July 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"IPPR’s ‘State of the North 2025’ brings important focus on the specific challenges faced by many young people in the north of England"
@alunfrancis.bsky.social, Chair of the Social Mobility Commission, has welcomed our report highlighting the need to spread opportunity fairly across the country ⤵️
@alunfrancis.bsky.social, Chair of the Social Mobility Commission, has welcomed our report highlighting the need to spread opportunity fairly across the country ⤵️
Reposted by Alun Francis
"The inclusion I’m worried about is the poor kid that comes in wanting to work hard, but the rest of the class are messing about and won’t let them."
Great interview in @feweek.bsky.social with @alunfrancis.bsky.social. His knowledge and insights are fascinating.
feweek.co.uk/alun-francis...
Great interview in @feweek.bsky.social with @alunfrancis.bsky.social. His knowledge and insights are fascinating.
feweek.co.uk/alun-francis...
Alun Francis, Social Mobility Commission chair and B&FC CEO
Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and social mobility chair Alun Francis is delivering it with the first ‘Multiversity’ in Blackpool
feweek.co.uk
June 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"The inclusion I’m worried about is the poor kid that comes in wanting to work hard, but the rest of the class are messing about and won’t let them."
Great interview in @feweek.bsky.social with @alunfrancis.bsky.social. His knowledge and insights are fascinating.
feweek.co.uk/alun-francis...
Great interview in @feweek.bsky.social with @alunfrancis.bsky.social. His knowledge and insights are fascinating.
feweek.co.uk/alun-francis...
Reposted by Alun Francis
See also
"direct relationship between #SocialMobility & innovation, as innovative economies inherently depend on opportunities for upward mobility, where incumbent firms are challenged & new market leaders emerge" (@alunfrancis.bsky.social)
socialmobility.independent-commission.uk/reports/inno...
"direct relationship between #SocialMobility & innovation, as innovative economies inherently depend on opportunities for upward mobility, where incumbent firms are challenged & new market leaders emerge" (@alunfrancis.bsky.social)
socialmobility.independent-commission.uk/reports/inno...
Innovation and Social Mobility: Two sides of the same coin - Social Mobility Commission
This piece sets out a direct relationship between social mobility and innovation, as innovative economies inherently depend on opportunities for upward mobility, where incumbent firms are challenged a...
socialmobility.independent-commission.uk
June 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
See also
"direct relationship between #SocialMobility & innovation, as innovative economies inherently depend on opportunities for upward mobility, where incumbent firms are challenged & new market leaders emerge" (@alunfrancis.bsky.social)
socialmobility.independent-commission.uk/reports/inno...
"direct relationship between #SocialMobility & innovation, as innovative economies inherently depend on opportunities for upward mobility, where incumbent firms are challenged & new market leaders emerge" (@alunfrancis.bsky.social)
socialmobility.independent-commission.uk/reports/inno...
What social mobility policy gets wrong: the view from Blackpool
February 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
What social mobility policy gets wrong: the view from Blackpool
Still working my way through this but its an excellent explanation by @samfr of the many flaws in our state system - and why government is so hard, no matter which party is in. www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/failed...
Failed State | Sam Freedman | London Review Bookshop
One of Britain's leading policy experts explores the dysfunction at the heart of the British state.***The top 5 Sunday Times bestseller***…
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Still working my way through this but its an excellent explanation by @samfr of the many flaws in our state system - and why government is so hard, no matter which party is in. www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/failed...
Read our latest publication from the Social
Mobility Commission, including our critique of existing approaches and what we think needs to change : socialmobility.independent-commission.uk/reports/inno...
Mobility Commission, including our critique of existing approaches and what we think needs to change : socialmobility.independent-commission.uk/reports/inno...
Innovation Generation: next steps for social mobility - Social Mobility Commission
socialmobility.independent-commission.uk
December 5, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Read our latest publication from the Social
Mobility Commission, including our critique of existing approaches and what we think needs to change : socialmobility.independent-commission.uk/reports/inno...
Mobility Commission, including our critique of existing approaches and what we think needs to change : socialmobility.independent-commission.uk/reports/inno...
Excellent report by @resfoundation.bsky.social & neat summary by @torstenbell.bsky.social - but 2 imp omissions 1- changes to families (graduates are very different to non-grads these days) & 2- our failure to develop valuable skills for the bottom 20-30% and the impact of this for them.
To start turning things around, it pays to understand the country as it exists today, not as it once was or as you imagine it to be www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To turn Britain around, we need a proper understanding of life for poorer workers | Torsten Bell
Research shows that despite higher rates of employment, lower income families are being squeezed by housing and living costs
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Excellent report by @resfoundation.bsky.social & neat summary by @torstenbell.bsky.social - but 2 imp omissions 1- changes to families (graduates are very different to non-grads these days) & 2- our failure to develop valuable skills for the bottom 20-30% and the impact of this for them.