Read Bart van Ark and Mary O'Mahony's Economics Observatory blog on the UK's productivity puzzle: economicsobservatory.com/what-explains-…

Pleased to see L&W’s Stephen Evans quoted in Big Issue coverage of the Prime Minister’s speech on welfare reform. 🗞️

To find out more about this issue, check out our report ‘Understanding benefits’: learningandwork.org.uk/resources/rese…

Greg Barradale

🗣️We’re pleased to see our statement on #Wales ’ latest #labourmarket stats, published in the BusinessLive.

📈The article dives into Wales’ #employment figures and high rates of #economicinactivity .

📰business-live.co.uk/economic-devel…

✍️ “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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🎤 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

Read here 👇

❕New blog out this morning!

What I'd like to tell Mel Stride if I could sit down to chat about work 👇
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Catch Stephen Evans at #NATECLA24 . ⤵️

Fantastic to see L&W chief exec Stephen Evans in BBC News (UK) making the case for widening employment support and investing in social infrastructure to help more people into work.

Read the article in full. ⤵️
bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

Wrote something about the Avanti Problem and why businesses, passengers and regional leaders are running out of patience with both the operator and the government:

on.ft.com/43Z4wEu

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. 🔍
theguardian.com/business/live/…

L&W chief exec Stephen Evans responds to April’s #labourmarketstats release from Office for National Statistics (ONS).

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