Employment experts call for £1 billion Youth Guarantee and urgent investment in education and back-to-work support. The Government needs to act now to tackle the fastest spike in unemployment on record or risk permanent damage to our economy and people’s livelihoods.

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has saved millions of jobs and prevented an even more catastrophic rise in unemployment than we’ve already seen. The Chancellor is right to extend and reform the scheme to prevent more people losing their jobs, but better target help where it is needed most.

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme must be extended for three months and reformed in order to prevent a ‘second wave’ of unemployment and support a phased return to work.

Our chief executive responds to the Universal Credit claimant figures published on 5 May.

An unprecedented and wide-ranging economic downturn is on the horizon due to Covid-19. How can we engage adults in online learning and why is it important?

Our chief executive comments on the labour market statistics released on 21 April.

New analysis by Learning and Work Institute shows that the coronavirus crisis will cause an unprecedented increase in unemployment which risks exacerbating pre-existing economic inequalities.  

As the minimum wage increases by a record amount, new research shows overwhelming support for further rises to the wage floor in order to tackle low pay.

Coronavirus is, first and foremost, a public health crisis. It is also having a profound impact on the labour market, both directly and also indirectly through the measures rightly being taken to protect health.

Award winners will be announced in the autumn.

Our chief executive responds to the Spring Budget announcement in March 2020.

We welcome the Committee’s inquiry into the government’s commitment to halving the disability employment gap. We fully support the government’s ambitions on disability employment but are concerned that significant cuts to the funding of employment support and the slow progress being made in developing coherent, cross-government and cross-sector action will hamper progress towards the target.