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  • Projects 24 06 2022

    Mapping Local Essential Skills Needs

    Essential skills like literacy and numeracy are increasingly crucial for life and work, for business success, and for economic growth. We're partnering with local authorities to help them map and understand local skills needs.
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  • Research and Reports 20 06 2022

    Care Leavers and the Welfare System

    With the support of Lloyds Bank Foundation, we've been working together with young people from Leicestershire Cares, Drive Forward and Homes2Inspire to understand care leavers’ experiences of the welfare system and develop policy recommendations.
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  • Research and Reports 17 06 2022

    The impact of higher inflation on skills budgets in England

    L&W has investigated innovative, place-based interventions in three areas where participation in essential skills learning declined the most to look at what works at a local level to engage learners in essential skills learning.
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  • Research and Reports 27 05 2022

    Local learning: Place-based insight on what works to drive up essential skills participation

    L&W has investigated innovative, place-based interventions in three areas where participation in essential skills learning declined the most to look at what works at a local level to engage learners in essential skills learning.
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  • Learning and Work Institute announces new Chief Economist

    Learning and Work Institute today announced the appointment of Dr Helen Gray as Chief Economist.
  • Research and Reports 17 05 2022

    Work Local impacts: A report for the Local Government Association on the potential benefits of improving employment and skills outcomes

    This report, commissioned by LGA, explores the potential impact of improving skills and employment in different geographies and tailoring support to meet local needs.
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  • Research and Reports 02 05 2022

    Raising the bar: Increasing employer investment in skills

    Marking five years since the introduction of the Government’s apprenticeship levy, this report argues for a new ‘Super Skills Tax Credit’ to support levelling up.
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  • Employer investment in training plummets 28% since 2005, putting the Government’s ambition of a high skill, high wage economy at risk, report warns

    Employers across the UK are investing less in training, with those with the lowest qualifications missing out. This is the finding of a new report by Learning and Work Institute, which shows the Government’s aim of developing a high skill, high wage economy is being put at risk. Marking five years since the introduction of the Government’s apprenticeship levy, the report argues for a new ‘Super Skills Tax Credit’ to support levelling up.
  • Levelling Up in England through Lifelong Learning

    The Levelling Up White Paper is a statement of intent and puts some flesh on the bones of what levelling up means, defining it as local pride, local control and greater equality of opportunity. But why does lifelong learning matter in this?

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