{"id":2941,"date":"2017-01-27T13:51:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T13:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:34","slug":"does-social-class-still-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2017\/01\/27\/does-social-class-still-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Does social class still matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark report on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcpch.ac.uk\/state-of-child-health\/report-in-a-glance\">State of Child Health<\/a> released by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health found that the UK rated poorly in a comparison\u00a0health of children in European Nations. 25 indicators were compared including infant mortality, obesity, immunisation and breastfeeding and in most cases poor health was linked with social deprivation and inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-class-pay-gap-within-britains-professions\">released this week, research<\/a> by the Social Mobility Commission showed social class mattered in terms of access to professional jobs and salaries.\u00a0 They estimated working class people earnt an average of 17% less each year than colleagues from more affluent backgrounds.\u00a0 This follows an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suttontrust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/APPG-on-Social-Mobility_Report_FINAL.pdf\">All Parliamentary Group report on the Class Ceiling <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suttontrust.com\/newsarchive\/the-sutton-trust-responds-to-the-social-mobility-commissions-research-into-the-class-pay-gap\/\">Sutton Trust<\/a> website also has many examples of research conducted into social class and access to education and the professions.<br \/>\nIn a speech this week its chief executive discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suttontrust.com\/newsarchive\/stuck-britains-social-mobility-problem-2\/\">Britain\u2019s social mobility problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark report on the State of Child Health released by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health found that the UK rated poorly in a comparison\u00a0health of children in European Nations. 25 indicators were compared including infant mortality, obesity, immunisation and breastfeeding and in most cases poor health was linked with social deprivation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,9],"tags":[236,107,204,167,374,93],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-education","tag-health","tag-inequality","tag-social-class","tag-social-mobility","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}