Julian Knight MP is supporting a new set of ambitious goals aimed at improving people’s life chances and access to careers in Solihull.
The ‘Levelling Up Goals’ are the practical response to the agenda to level-up Britain in the recovery from Covid19. They have been designed by a former Cabinet minister alongside Britain's leading businesses and universities to pinpoint key challenges that, if resolved, would create a level playing field on life and job opportunities.
Former Secretary of State for Education, Rt Hon Justine Greening, developed the Levelling Up Goals with the aim of improving life chances, from early years through to adulthood.
Justine Greening has campaigned to level up Britain - by spreading opportunities more evenly across the country - for years and in 2018 she co-founded the national Social Mobility Pledge with entrepreneur and philanthropist, David Harrison. The Levelling Up Goals are chaired in Parliament by Robbie Moore MP.
The Levelling Up Goals include closing the gaps in literacy that emerge in early school years as well as tackling the digital divide and building up personal financial security.
The 14 Levelling Up Goals are intended to set out how the ambition to level up Britain can be achieved. Targets and measurements related to the goals are being developed by the Social Mobility Pledge in coordination with the University of York.
Between 2012 and 2016, Justine Greening was the UK’s International Development Secretary and during this time, she worked alongside the UN and 184 international partners to agree the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs were designed to be a “blueprint to achieve a better more sustainable future for all.”
She hopes the Levelling Up Goals will provide the same framework for government, education, businesses, communities and others to get behind and address the long running lack of social mobility and inequality of opportunity that exists in Britain.
