Cumbria’s Talent Force recognises our brilliant next generation that have been educated in Cumbria and now work in one of our many organisations in the county giving the young people in your school and college the opportunity to imagine what their future may look like.
School leaders are all too aware of the advantages that access to increased social capital can give their students. ‘You can’t be what you can’t see’ is a truism, and clearly many people achieve great things from humble beginnings. But we know that we are a very long way from achieving the type of social mobility (or, even better, social justice) that we would like to see in the UK – and that schools play a crucial role in opening young people’s minds to possible futures ahead of them.
Raising young people’s aspirations, helping them to imagine futures they may never have considered, can be a powerful motivator – particularly for those students without the social and cultural capital enjoyed by many students.
