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Accountancy firms leading the way in social mobility

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Rachel Hopcroft is Chair of the Access Accountancy Patron Group and Head of Corporate Affairs at KPMG UK LLP
July 2018
​The Social Mobility Employer Index has been a real game changer in accelerating business interest in the issue of social mobility. It helps to highlight best practice, provides tailored guidance on what more each of us can be doing and facilitates greater collaboration. The accountancy profession is leading the way – with six Access Accountancy members in the top 20 of this year’s Index.
 
Access Accountancy is an ambitious collaboration of employers and professional bodies, dedicated to improving access to the accountancy profession. Our vision is a profession that better reflects the socio-economic demographic of wider society. Set up in 2014, Access Accountancy has 27 members – including professional bodies, the Big 4 firms, through to small accountancy practices. Putting competition aside, members have committed to measurable outcomes by 2019. This includes delivering 3,750 high quality work experience placements to students from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
 
As Chair of the Access Accountancy Patron Group, we know there is more we can do to push ourselves and others. We feel a responsibility and a sense of pride sharing best practice and our key learnings with other sectors. Through our collective leadership, contributing evidence-based interventions to the social mobility debate, we hope to drive change in our own industry and beyond.
 
The Top 50 Social Mobility Employer Index 2018 rankings
1             KPMG UK LLP
2             Grant Thornton UK
3             Ministry of Justice
4             Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
5             Deloitte
6             PwC
7             EY
8             Enterprise Rent-A-Car
9             Civil Service Fast Stream and Early Talent
10           Baker McKenzie
11           Linklaters LLP
12           J.P. Morgan
13           Aviva PLC
14           Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC
15           Herbert Smith Freehills
16           Mazars
17           Department for Work & Pensions
18           Department for Education
19           Freeths LLP
20           Severn Trent
21           O2
22           Clifford Chance LLP
23           Eversheds Sutherland LLP
24           The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
25           Department for International Trade
26           Capgemini UK
27           Fujitsu
28           BBC
29           Standard Life Aberdeen
30           JLL
31           National Grid PLC
32           Barts Health NHS Trust
33           The Co-op
34           HM Treasury
35           Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
36           Hogan Lovells International LLP
37           Financial Conduct Authority
38           DLA Piper
39           Penguin Random House UK
40           M&G Investments
41           Pinsent Masons LLP
42           Royal Navy and Royal Marines
43           Ministry of Defence
44           HFW
45           Slaughter and May
46           HM Revenue & Customs
47           Mayer Brown International LLP
48           Dentons
49           Santander UK
50           British Land
 
 

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