Research and analysis

Social and emotional skills: helping young people in their work and life

Research on the links between social and emotional skills and disadvantaged backgrounds.

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These 3 independent reports show the importance of social and emotional skills in giving young people access to professional jobs.

They also show that:

  • those from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to develop good social and emotional skills than others
  • this 鈥榮kills gap鈥� opens up in childhood and remains throughout adult life

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Published 11 March 2015

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