Straight Talking. Clear Thinking.
The employment support landscape is in one of its most significant periods of reform in recent years. Restart is making its final referrals this June and the new programme. Connect to Work is live and scaling across England and Wales. The Youth Guarantee is in trailblazers across eight mayoral areas with a national rollout underway. […]
Alan Milburn’s interim report into young people and work landed in May with a figure the employment support sector cannot ignore. For every £1 the system spends helping a young person into work, it spends around £25 keeping that same young person on benefits. We have built a system far better resourced to manage detachment […]
Britain has an employment problem, but it’s not the one that makes headlines. Unemployment is relatively low. The issue is the millions of people who’ve stopped looking for work altogether. Since 2019, 800,000 more working-age people have dropped out of the workforce due to health problems. Long-term sickness now keeps 2.8 million people at home. […]
