“Without data, it’s quite hard to know how many of those people are getting into jobs.”

L&W deputy director Sam Avanzo Windett discusses sector-based work academy programmes (SWAPs) and the need for data on their outcomes with Josh Mellor 👇
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🎤 Rishi Sunak to give speech on welfare reform to end to ‘sick note culture’ – Sector Response

💬 Check out the sector response with comments so far from Stephen Evans from Learning and Work Institute and Ben Harrison from The Work Foundation

#welfarereform #rishisunak

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1. Have read the speech. Bigger points are not fit notes but reform of PIP. Consultation is promised but suggestion of tightening of who's seen as having ongoing extra costs due to disability (ie not for one-off adjustments) plus limiting where mental health is main condition.

✍️ “Focusing on the sign-off process for sick notes will miss the point without more root and branch reform to widen support.”

L&W chief exec Stephen Evans responds to the Prime Minister’s speech on “sicknote culture” and welfare reform. ⤵️
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'.Stephen Evans from Learning and Work Institute believes the government needs to widen employment support and invest in social infrastructure, such as childcare, skills and health.'
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Spot the country heading in the wrong direction... “the UK is the only G7 country where employment remains lower than pre-pandemic levels.”

Great to see Stephen Evans in The Guardian Graeme Wearden coverage of Office for National Statistics (ONS) #labourmarket data. 🔍
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Looking forward to today's Learning and Work Institute roundtable with stakeholders from government, business and the employment and skills sectors to discuss support in Wales for people to change careers. Part of our flagship New Futures project Covid-19 Support Fund learningandwork.org.uk/resources/rese…

L&W chief executive Stephen Evans has commented on the Prime Minister’s speech on apprenticeships. ✍️

“We need wider change to the apprenticeship system if we’re to reverse the declines of recent years.”

#apprenticeships
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Young carers in England and Wales ‘forced out of education’ by benefit rules Nicola Aylward Learning and Work Institute theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

A group of young adult carers arrived at Caxton House earlier today to meet with officials at Department for Work and Pensions and hand in our open letter with Carers Trust on the 21 hour rule.

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Alongside Carers Trust, we’re paying a special visit to DWP later today to deliver our open letter on the 21 hour rule. 📝

200+ individuals and organisations have called for young adult carers to be exempt from this benefit rule.

#YoungCarersActionDay
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Our March 2024 labour market briefing is now live 🔴

Read it in full and subscribe to monthly updates: learningandwork.org.uk/what-we-do/emp… 🔍

#employment #unemployment #vacancies #labourmarketstats Office for National Statistics (ONS)

No mention in #Budget2024 of the Shared Prosperity Fund post March 2025. That's one year from now. The People & Skills strand (replacing European Social Fund) focuses on employment support and skills provision in communities - after a problematic start, what happens next?

L&W chief executive Stephen Evans has commented on the Chancellor’s Spring Budget 2024. ✍️

#budget2024highlights #springbudget #budgetspeech

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Looking forward to hearing Liz Kendall speak Demos on youth employment. Learning and Work Institute argue for a Youth Guarantee so all young people offered a job, training place or apprenticeship. Need joined up employment & skills support & engaged employers to deliver.

L&W chief exec Stephen Evans has commented on the latest #labourmarketstats from Office for National Statistics (ONS). 💬

Stay tuned for our full labour market briefing... 💡

#employment #growth

Correspondence from Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Minister for Levelling Up to the Work & Pensions Committee on People and skills and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund re the numbers of people moved into work, evaluation and the UKSPF beyond 2025
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L&W’s deputy head of research Dr Corin Egglestone has commented on the latest apprenticeships data from Department for Education.

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Our new report with The St Martin's Group is out! 📑

This explores what #apprenticeship success looks like to employers, finding that 99% of employers recognise the benefits of offering apprenticeships but face barriers in supporting completion.

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Our full analysis of the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) #labourmarketstats is now LIVE!

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