How to return Britain to the opportunity stairs

The writer, a FT, who is a chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts and former Economists at the Bank of England

Imagine that June 2029 is on the eve of the general elections. . .

It is clear that the decisive moment for the UK government came in 2025. The mysterious discontent over the stagnant living levels was flooded in a second riot in a row. They are the Prime Minister, Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer launched the Lifting Life (LL).

Its goal was to convert opportunities for young people, especially those who belong to poor backgrounds. In addition to the words of Robert F Kennedy in 1968, Starmer said: “The youth of our nation are the clearest mirror of our performance. Today, for many, this mirror is cracking.

Poverty is a punitive tax on ambition. In 2025, children’s poverty in the United Kingdom was expected to rise from 4.5 million to 5 colors. By canceling the roof of the benefits, these barriers are not only financial – they are digital, health, work and society. These were also treated widely and in the source.

In 2025, about 40 percent of young people lacking access to wide range and a computer at home. According to the LL program, a coalition of technology companies agreed to provide each school in the United Kingdom with modern technology and every child with a computer, broad -range arrival and personal teacher, with partially discount costs against the digital services tax imposed on it. When stroke, the children’s digital exclusion was erased.

Digital Tucked based on “Khanmigo”, a tool that works with the same Amnesty International, which was developed by the Khan Academy. Since its presentation, this has achieved its goal for the year 2025 of improving academic performance at similar levels of human teaching, but in a small part of the cost. Personal learning has benefited more from complex educational needs than others, including nervous diversity and low -services children, reducing the wide achievement gap in the United Kingdom.

In 2025, mental health problems were injured out of every five youth, but less than one in 10 government secondary schools had a nurse. LL provides each school with an internal doctor, and offers programs with funding from the preventive health budget in everything from eating well to anxiety, as well as treatment for mental and physical health problems. The presence of mental health problems of school age are now falling.

In 2025, the bridge from education to training and work, for many, was broken: young people were not 1 millimeters at work or training. These problems were obtained in the school, as the financing of professional advice has decreased by two-thirds since 2010. This was then doubled through restricted professional paths, especially for those who have low or non-qualifications-financing for additional education colleges that decreased by more than 10 percent and the numbers of trainees in more than a quarter since 2010.

Under the LL program, the financing of advisory services for school jobs has been restored to the 2010 levels in each school, as local companies provide an organized program of volunteers, conversations and practical experience for every 14 to 18 years. To provide a clear way for artwork, the technical baccalaureate (TBACC) was presented in all schools from the age of 14, similar Mbacc Pioneer in Manchester.

To enhance post -school paths to work, every 18 -year -old was guaranteed either to obtain a degree, degree or trainee. To ensure the participation of business actively in the last two programs, the LL program presented tax balances for participating companies, as well as additional financing for colleges and universities that provide training courses that meet a local commercial request, funded by business.

These initiatives have prompted the re -education of education after 18. Innovative models of technology and personality have emerged, as well as academic skills and skills and are compatible with local employment needs. While the Blackpool College, Boldi and the University of Namit in Herford were early models, the collective discipline of the degrees became fast and yesterday’s universities became “multiple” at “multiple” tomorrow.

Often the way to social movement is outside education and work. Research has found that societal and recreational activities are the best one way to build social ties and Rapid tracking social mobility In the United Kingdom. However, the number of youth clubs, entertainment centers, football fields and libraries across the United Kingdom decreased by several thousand between 2010 and 2025, especially in poor places.

LL has been reflected since then these trends. Since 2025, each of the 134 teams in football tournaments in English and Scottish sponsored a youth club in their city or city, similar to the youth areas, as well as providing sports, music, cultural and entertainment activities for ages from eight to 25 years. Under the leadership of Sir Gareth Southgate, each youth area also provides guidance services to confront “missing boys” (girls).

Stop for half a century, and the status of the opportunity to move. On the eve of the elections, the Prime Minister again relied on Kennedy’s words: “GDP does not measure the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play.” He continued: “The raising of lives led to a computer and a teacher for every child, a nurse in every school, and a functional path for every adult young man and club for every society. A mirror is cracked now.”