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  • Celebrating New Futures’ impact in Tees Valley: Three prongs to success

    With the Tees Valley New Futures pilot ending in December, Sally Gardner from Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) explains how the programme has impacted residents and the local economy.
  • Ambitious career changer creates unique legacy for the New Futures Edinburgh pilot

    Guest blogger Joe Mountford-Smith from Capital City Partnership reflects on the Edinburgh New Futures pilot and highlights one participant who is paving the way for others to follow in her footsteps.
  • Tech employment academies support successful career change as two more cohorts start in Belfast

    Michael Kane from Belfast City Council updates us on the impact of the Belfast New Futures pilot and introduces the next two cohorts of the tech academies.
  • Making a smooth career landing

    Pilots working with a wide range of partners including local authorities have led to more than 100 people reskilling and switching career so far. Hannah Carmichael, New Futures Programme Manager at Learning and Work Institute, explains in an article for The MJ.
  • Testing a different approach to supporting adults to change career in Tees Valley

    A guest blog from Tees Valley Combined Authority talks about how their New Futures pilot is supporting people impacted by Covid-19 to change career.
  • New Futures Edinburgh: Reskilling support for people impacted by Covid-19

    Guest blogger, Joe Mountford-Smith from Capital City Partnership in Edinburgh talks about their New Futures pilot and how they are supporting people to reskill and change career by providing high quality careers advice and coaching.
  • More than 50 people change career as a result of reskilling pilots

    More than 50 people have started jobs in industries or sectors that are new to them, after receiving support to reskill in four localities across the UK as part of Learning and Work Institute’s New Futures programme.
  • New Futures Wales: Supporting women into tech

    Guest blogger, Bethan Baldwin from Chwarae Teg, talks about their New Futures pilot in Wales and how they will be supporting women to switch careers into tech.
  • The UK's shrinking workforce

    Naomi Clayton, deputy director, explores the latest data on economic inactivity and sets out 5 recommendations to support people into work.

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