the sutton trust
Social mobility in Britain is low. The educational opportunities and life
chances of a child born today are strongly linked to their parents’
socio-economic background. This is the challenge we face. Since 1997 and under
the leadership of our founder, Sir Peter Lampl, the Sutton Trust has worked to
address this. We fight for social mobility from birth to the workplace so that
every young person – no matter who their parents are, what school they go to, or
where they live – has the chance to succeed in
