Raised on welfare and having attended some of the lowest performing schools in the country, barrister Hashi Mohamed knows something about social mobility. Here, he shares what he has learned: from the stark statistics that reveal the depth of the problem to the failures of imagination, education and confidence that compound it.
Wherever you are on the social spectrum, this is an essential investigation into our society's most intractable problem. We have more power than we realise to change things for the better.