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04 11 2024

Adult Participation in Learning Survey 2024

For more than 25 years, the Adult Participation in Learning Survey has provided a unique insight into adult learning across the UK. It adopts a deliberately broad definition of learning. Discover our findings from 2024.

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  • Research and Reports 16 06 2025

    Implementing Connect to Work in Central London

    Central London Forward commissioned Learning and Work Institute in partnership with Inclusion London and Inclusion Barnet to conduct research to inform the roll out of Connect to Work in their boroughs.
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  • Research and Reports 12 06 2025

    Balancing work and care

    A new report from Learning and Work Institute for the Commission for Healthier Working Lives warns targeted support is required to help the UK's 6 million unpaid carers pursue fulfilling careers where they can and want to work.
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  • Research and Reports 28 05 2025

    Lifelong learning and skills for longer lives

    Funded by Phoenix Insights, this research builds an evidence base on the employment-related impact of lifelong learning on individuals, employers and the wider economy.
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  • Research and Reports 27 05 2025

    Transforming opportunity

    We are pleased to share our vision for an ambitious Youth Guarantee so that fewer than 10% of young people are NEET, and no young person who is able to engage with work or training is NEET for more than a year.
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  • Research and Reports 01 05 2025

    Learning the lessons

    ‘Learning the lessons’ is the third report produced as part of our Ambition Skills programme of work. It looks at the history of adult learning and skills, going back to the late 19th century, and lessons that can be learned.
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  • Research and Reports 17 04 2025

    Estimating the impacts of extra employment support for disabled people

    In light of the Government's recent Pathways to Work Green Paper, this briefing note explores what impact the Government's proposed increase in employment support could have for disabled people.
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  • Research and Reports 04 04 2025

    Youth Opportunity Index 2025

    Our Youth Opportunity Index 2025 gives a detailed portrait of the opportunities and challenges for every young person broken down by local education authority. It has revealed the intra-regional differences in England as well as regional ones.
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  • Research and Reports 04 04 2025

    Young people who are not in education, employment, or training – what does the data tell us?

    This briefing provides an overview of the scale of how many NEET young people there are in the UK, what the characteristics of NEET young people are, and the differences in opportunity between different areas of England.
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  • Research and Reports 10 03 2025

    An exploration of local variations in health and job outcomes across the UK

    The number of people economically inactive due to ill health has risen across all UK nations and regions. But a closer look at variations in health and job outcomes across the country reveals persistent inequalities between local areas.
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  • Research and Reports 10 03 2025

    Supporting workers’ health and access to better work

    A new report from Learning and Work Institute for the Commission for Healthier Working Lives sets out what we know about what works to support disabled people and people with long-term health conditions.
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  • Research and Reports 25 02 2025

    The benefit trap

    This report looks at how the benefit system is trapping 3.5 million people on sickness benefits and how doubling the help available could help an extra 500,000 people into work over ten years.
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  • Projects 17 01 2025

    Connect To Work in Central London

    L&W and Inclusion London are conducting research on behalf of Central London Forward, and funded by the Greater London Authority, to inform the delivery of the new Connect to Work employment programme.
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