Conor Ryan was quoted in the Financial Times’  report on the reaction to Matt Hancock’s plans to improve social mobility. 

“A government proposal that employers should find out whether prospective recruits attended a private school has so infuriated Lord Waldegrave, a former Conservative cabinet minister and now provost of Eton College, that he has threatened to resign his party’s whip.

“The idea — put forward by Matt Hancock, the Cabinet Office minister and a close ally of George Osborne, the chancellor — chimes with David Cameron’s aim of improving the life chances of those from disadvantaged family backgrounds.

Will Mr Hancock’s plan work?

“Conor Ryan, director of research at the Sutton Trust, a social mobility charity, believes it will. Asking potential employees about their educational background “will help employers make fair judgments about their potential . . . There are real economic and social benefits to be gained from recruiting from a wider talent pool”, he said on Monday.”

Read the full article here (£).