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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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Responding to the Government's Pathways to Work Green Paper

Learning and Work Institute chief executive Stephen Evans responds to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions' Pathways to Work Green Paper.
Three tests for the Government’s health and disability benefit Green Paper

In an article originally published in FE News, Stephen Evans, L&W's chief executive, sets out three tests for the Government's forthcoming Green Paper on health and disability benefits.
20 seaside towns and former industrial areas are home to 1 in 10 people who are economically inactive due to poor health

New research from Learning and Work Institute reveals almost ten percent of people who are economically inactive due to poor health live in only 20 of the UK’s 372 local authorities, with these areas representing just 4% of the UK population. Seaside towns and former mining and manufacturing communities fare the worst.
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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Reforming the ‘benefit trap’ to offer more support to disabled people could help half a million more people into work by 2035

New research finds that the benefit system is trapping 3.5 million people on sickness benefits and that doubling the help available could help an extra 500,000 people into work over 10 years.
Achieving the Government’s new employment rate target will require a fully inclusive employment system

Reflecting L&W's recent research for Health Equals, Research Manager Hazel Klenk calls for an employment system underpinned by the principles of fairness and full inclusion, rather than one that is fundamentally ableist.
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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Responding to the Get Britain Working White Paper

Learning and Work Institute chief executive Stephen Evans responds to the Get Britain Working White Paper published on 26 November 2024.

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