• 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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• Blog 17 03 2025

  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.
• News 10 03 2025

  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 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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• News 25 02 2025

  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.
• Research and Reports 28 01 2025

  Work and health: international comparisons with the UK

  This report from Institute for Employment Studies (IES) informing the Commission for Healthier Working Lives investigates how the UK compares with 14 other European countries in the employment of workers with long-term ill health

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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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