TRAFFORD SCHOOLS AND ACCESS TO RUSSELL GROUP UNIVERSITIES

That this House notes the recent Sutton Trust research featured in The Times on 17 January 2015, showing local authority areas which had been most successful in getting pupils from maintained schools into Russell Group universities; further notes that Trafford was the only area outside the South of England and alongside Torbay and Bournemouth one of only three areas from outside London and the South East featuring in the top 20; and urges the Government and local authorities to examine what lessons can be learned from Trafford on the better promotion of aspiration, opportunity and social mobility.