The Social Mobility Commission's annual State of the Nation report paints a bleak picture. It shows the gap between the wealthiest in society and those on low and middle incomes is becoming so wide that it is causing deep social division among groups of people and different parts of the country.
It says just one in eight children from low-income backgrounds today will go on to become a high-income earner - evidence that the often cited expectation for generations to be better off than their parents no longer holds.
It also focuses on the role played by the education system, which it says is embedding disadvantage early in a child's life, with too many children in deprived areas attending poor quality schools and not getting good careers advice.
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