Ministers consider closing social mobility watchdog as part of planned shake-up
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Exclusive: Labour MPs believe SMC has become ineffective and its work ‘should be a core function of government’
Ministers are considering a shake-up of the government’s social mobility watchdog that could range from giving it more teeth to abolishing it outright.
The move comes amid concerns that the Social Mobility Commission (SMC) – originally conceived under Gordon Brown’s government in 2010 – has become ineffective.
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