Better work
10 October 2024
Responding to the Government’s Employment Rights Bill
L&W's chief executive Stephen Evans responds to the Government's Employment Rights Bill on 10 October 2024.
24 September 2024
Responding to the Prime Minister’s speech on apprenticeships at Labour Party Conference
L&W's chief executive Stephen Evans and head of learning for young people Nicola Aylward respond to the Prime Minister's party conference speech on apprenticeships on 24 September 2024.
12 September 2024
30 July 2024
Employer investment in upskilling and reskilling in a changing economy
With support from the Nuffield Foundation, L&W is exploring employer investment in skills, and how employees are responding to the need to upskill and retrain in a transitioning economy.
28 June 2024
New Futures
L&W's flagship project, supporting people who need to reskill and change career as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
7 June 2024
Flex and match: a new Skills Levy for growth and opportunity
This report makes the case for broadening the apprenticeship levy into a “flex and match” Skills Levy that would give employers greater flexibility to spend their levy, but only if they also invest in apprenticeships for young people.
14 May 2024
Ambition Skills
Our Ambition Skills programme, supported by City & Guilds and NOCN, explores the economic and social case for the UK to have a higher ambition for skills.
17 January 2024
Enabling better outcomes: a wider view of apprenticeship success
The St Martin’s Group commissioned Learning and Work Institute to explore the barriers apprenticeship employers face, what they can do to help apprentices complete their programmes, and how to define ‘best outcomes’ of apprenticeships.
2 August 2023
The future of work: protected characteristics in a changing workplace
The EHRC has commissioned L&W to conduct research into the major drivers of changes in the world of work. This report looks at the impact of three long-term British labour market trends on people with certain protected characteristics.
28 July 2023
Skills accelerator pilot evaluation
L&W, in partnership with IFF Research, evaluated the Skills Accelerator pilot on behalf of the Department of Education, incorporating the local skills improvement plan (LSIP) trailblazers and strategic development fund (SDF).
