No single figure has done more to highlight public and political awareness of the continuing inequalities in our school system than Peter Lampl, philanthropist and founder/chairman of the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Fund. Educated in grammar schools and at Oxford, Lampl went to the US to make his career and fortune. On his return, he was shocked to discover “A kid like me had little chance of making it to Oxbridge” and that his grammar school had become “all fee-paying”. So he set up the Oxford Summer School to give bright school students the encouragement to aim for the top universities. In 1997, he founded the Sutton Trust to enhance social mobility. Many thousands of young people have benefited from his various schemes, while the Sutton Trust has issued a series of devastating reports examining static social mobility, despite all the improvements in schools over the last 20 years.