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Connect to Work Top Tips

Learning and Work Institute has been commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA) to produce a series of top tips to support local government to develop a high quality Connect to Work service to help people into work.

Place-Based Partnerships: Spotlight on Hull

In partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust, we’re identifying key barriers to learning in four areas across the UK and designing targeted solutions to overcome them. This is an update on our place-based collaboration work in Hull.

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.

The time has never been better – for skills, adult and further education

This Lifelong Learning Week, Dame Ann Limb, Chair of the Lifelong Education Institute, spots the clues the Government knows it’s time for skills to make a positive change.

Piloting JobsPlus in the UK: creating more pathways to sustainable employment

L&W's Naomi Clayton introduces the JobsPlus pilot programme, backed by the Department for Work and Pensions through HM Treasury’s LMEP Fund.

JobsPlus

JobsPlus is a community-led employment scheme managed by L&W and funded by the Department for Work and Pensions and Youth Futures Foundation.

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.

Health-led Trials Impact Evaluation Reports

These reports contain the detailed findings and analysis for the Health-led Trials, a large-scale randomised-controlled trial testing time-limited provision of Individual Placement and Support for people with health conditions in primary care.

Change is the new normal, how can we deliver a skills system for an economy in transition?

Louise Rowland, the Deputy CEO of Ufi VocTech Trust, says that we should focus less on skills gaps and more on creating a better skills system.