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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 30 12 2023

    Modelling Essential Skills Needs Across England

    L&W has conducted an England-wide modelling exercise of adults aged 16 to 64, identifying disparities in essential skills levels within local areas which far exceed those between local and combined authorities across the country.
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  • Funding for adult learning risks overlooking nine million adults without basic literacy or numeracy skills, briefing warns

    Nine million adults in England lack essential literacy or numeracy skills and will continue to lose out without increased and targeted investment, Learning and Work Institute warns in a new briefing.
  • Nominations open for adult learning awards 2024

    Learning and Work Institute and the West Midlands Combined Authority are in search of people and organisations that have remarkable stories that will inspire others to get involved in adult learning. Nominations are open until 2 February 2024.
  • This year’s Festival of Learning award winners showcase the power of adult learning to change lives and inspire others to fulfil their potential

    The Festival of Learning award winners for 2023 have been announced by Learning and Work Institute. The ten winners, revealed at an awards ceremony, include inspiring stories of adult learners, as well as outstanding adult learning provision, tutors and employers.
  • Mental health: what works to support people to find and stay in work?

    Mental ill health can be a substantial barrier to finding and staying in work. Just 51% of people with a mental illness are in work and each year an estimated 18.5 million days are lost through sickness absence due to mental health conditions. This blog explores the evidence on supporting people to work, drawing on the recently published Health-led Employment Trial evaluation.
  • Projects 19 01 2023

    VocTech Challenge 2023: Skills for an economy in transition

    The VocTech Challenge 2023 aims to accelerate the adoption and deployment of technology to help every adult in the UK get the skills they need to participate & benefit from our transitioning.
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  • Multiply Effective Practice Network

    The Government has recently announced Multiply, a new 3-year £560m national programme focussed on adult numeracy. Mayoral Combined Authorities and local authorities have received a share of this funding to commission and deliver Multiply activity. L&W is launching The Multiply Effective Practice Network (MEPN). The network provides a forum for all Multiply commissioners, providers and wider stakeholders with a strategic interest and expertise in adult numeracy to share experiences and learn from other areas as the Multiply programme evolves, in real time.
  • Research and Reports 26 10 2022

    Evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee

    L&W recently gave written evidence to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry on Plan for Jobs and employment support, which can be read here. Stephen Evans also gave oral evidence. The Inquiry is looking at the reasons for the rise
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