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🔄 Major Employment Reform Alert: Government Unveils "Get Britain Working" White Paper Today marks a significant shift in how the UK approaches employment support, with Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Secretary Liz Kendall announcing a comprehensive £240 million reform package. The goal? Achieving an ambitious 80% employment rate and transforming how we support people into work. The numbers tell a concerning story: 1.5 million unemployed, 9 million inactive, and a record 2.8 million out of work due to long-term sickness. Even more worrying, one in eight young people aren't in education, employment, or training. Key highlights of the reform: 💪 Complete overhaul of Jobcentres into a modern National Jobs and Careers Service 🏥 Expanded mental health support and targeted NHS waiting list reduction in high-unemployment areas 👥 New Youth Guarantee ensuring every 18-21 year old has access to education, training, or employment opportunities 🤝 Partnerships with major organisations like the Premier League and Channel 4 to create opportunities 📱 £55 million investment in digital services and AI to modernise job searching 🏢 Empowering local mayors with up to £15 million to develop region-specific employment strategies The reforms mark a departure from the "tick box" culture of the past, focusing instead on personalised support and addressing root causes of unemployment. Particularly notable is the emphasis on mental health support and the connection between health and employment. Mayor Andy Burnham puts it well: "It's great to see the Government get serious about transforming the old tick-box approach to job support into one that tackles the root causes of unemployment and poor health and sets people up to succeed." These changes represent the biggest reform to employment support in a generation. The success will ultimately depend on how effectively these programs are implemented and whether they can create lasting positive change in communities across Britain. What are your thoughts on these reforms? Do you think they'll make a meaningful difference in getting Britain working again?  https://lnkd.in/eRmZpnpv #Employment #UKJobs #WorkforceReform #GetBritainWorking #JobMarket #CareerDevelopment

Get Britain Working: DWP unveils employment support reforms The UK government's "Get Britain Working" white paper introduces groundbreaking reforms aimed at tackling unemployment and economic inactivity as the government aims to achieve an ambitious 80% employment rate. Key highlights include: 💠 Youth Guarantee: Ensuring every young person has access to education, training, or employment. 💠 National Jobs and Careers Service: Overhauling Jobcentres to focus on skills and career development. 💠 Health and Disability Support: Enhancing support for employers to recruit and retain individuals with health conditions. https://lnkd.in/dFnSQdwS #HR #EmploymentSupport #GetBritainWorking #WorkforceDevelopment #Inclusion

Really sightfull article that scratches the surface of this subject I do agree thwt their any various reasons why some people may choose not to work in the UK. These reasons could include issues such as job market conditions, wages, work-life balance, career opportunities, lack of real education , personal circumstances, or preferences for alternative activities like studying, starting a business, or pursuing other interests. However when we consider developing support to remove barriers to the labour market the list is pretty extensive. Some potential solutions could include: 1. **Improving Job Opportunities:** Creating more job opportunities through economic growth, investment in sectors with high potential for job creation, and supporting entrepreneurship. 2. **Enhancing Work Conditions:** Ensuring fair wages, good working conditions, opportunities for career development, and promoting work-life balance. 3. **Investing in Education and Skills:** Providing access to high-quality education and training programs to equip people with the skills needed for available jobs. 4. **Supporting Flexible Work Arrangements:** Offering flexible work options such as remote work, part-time positions, or flexible schedules to accommodate different preferences and lifestyles. 5. **Addressing Housing Affordability:** Tackling issues related to housing affordability can make it easier for people to live and work in the UK. 6. **Promoting Diversity and Inclusion:** Creating inclusive work environments that welcome individuals from diverse backgrounds can attract a wider range of talent to the workforce. 7. **Supporting Mental Health and Well-being:** Prioritizing mental health support in the workplace can help retain employees and attract new talent. Most of these factors we can actually put a ‘but’ after…but it costly…but we do that anyway, it may be possible to encourage more people to choose to work in the UK with a minority who face being left behind. #careers #careersguidence #Hongkongpathways #employment #statsandreserch

Fasten your seatbelts #Employability - the new Secretary of State has a plan Liz Kendall is setting these ideas out today I can confirm today that we will empower local leaders and local areas to tackle economic inactivity and open up economic opportunity. We will give local places the responsibility and resources to design a joined-up work, health and skills offer that’s right for local people. DWP will support local areas to make a success of this new approach. And we will devolve new powers over employment support to catalyse action and change. Key deliverables -A new national jobs and career service to help get more people into work, and on in their work. -New work, health and skills plans for the economically inactive, led by Mayors and local areas. -A youth guarantee for all young people aged 18 to 21. https://lnkd.in/e3F9e3N5

Let's Get Britain Working White Paper - A job isn't enough! Focus on a career! The economy, policymakers and employers need to be focusing on not just getting people back to work or in a job for the sake of a job! Let's focus on helping people build a career and tapping into the stepping stones that help them build a career and a better quality of life. Let's shift the focus away from you getting a job, a pay packet or this salary but towards developing and growing a career and better quality of life and building a better life for yourself and or family. The Government sets great aspirations to get Britain growing and working again! For this to happen many fundamental building blocks like a jigsaw puzzle need to work together as a 'whole system' for success and sustainability. Many previous attempts have tried to revamp the benefit and welfare state and get people moving and back to work but these haven't been sustainable. There are many different cohorts of people out of work for many reasons and a 'one size fits all' approach isn't the answer. Many individuals would like to return to work but feel compromised as they have young children and have to consider childcare fees etc. Others have been made redundant and require a job and organisation that fits with their amplitude and capability. Some individuals are 'stuck' as for many years the burden of care has shifted across to families/with many hidden carers or siblings sharing caring responsibility but not claiming carers allowances or job seekers. Again, feeling compromised do they look after their elderly parents with multiple conditions or are bed-bound or go to work? Cultural awareness, trauma-informed practices, unconscious bias training etc etc should be considered if plans to get Britain moving and working again are to be sustainable.

The UK is in a mess right now, far bigger than any of the current political parties could hope to fix alone. They desperately need our help as business people. Sadly many of our problems are structural, albeit exacerbated by dire fiscal conditions. It's not happened overnight although the current government is certainly not helping matters. To my mind there are 6 big policy areas that need addressing in a grown up, long term manner. These include... 1. Our long term ECONOMIC STRATEGY. The way we as a country seek to participate in a diverse and competitive global economic landscape. 2. A mature and considered approach to POPULATION GROWTH & IMMIGRATION. Aligned overall to strategy and investment in public infrastructure. 3. Linked especially to affordable and accessible HOUSING for UK citizens. Arguably housing is at the root of most of our travails, especially as it sets the benchmark for welfare benefits. 4. Finding a more sustainable and affordable approach to NATIONAL HEALTHCARE leveraging technology and wider strategic partners in its effective delivery. 5. Adequate and affordable PENSIONS provision for all employees, with greater equity across the public and private sectors. 6. Sustainable LONG TERM CARE solutions which find an acceptable balance between young and old, wealthy and poor, sick and well. IMHO it is incumbent on those of us with drive and business experience to find ways to get involved in solving these societal problems. Whilst I have experience in 4 out of 6 of these areas I have resolved to look for ways to bring my experience to bear more specifically in Housing and Long Term Care. As such I would love to speak to others in a similar position who feel the same.

Think Gen Z is the online-all-the-time generation? Not when it comes to enrolling in voluntary benefits. Eastbridge’s newest MarketVisionTM — The Employee Viewpoint© study shows Gen Z employees are significantly less likely than older workers to prefer enrolling online. And the youngest generation also leans more strongly than other employees toward paper-based enrollment methods. Find out how to get your copy of this study and learn more about employee benefits preferences by generation, income level, occupation and the presence of children in the household at https://lnkd.in/eWvWXRZw. #voluntarybenefits #supplementalbenefits #benefitseducation #benefitsenrollment #employeedemographics #employeeviewpoint #occupation #generation #income #children Nick Rockwell Bonnie Brazzell Danielle Lehman Ginger Bates 

Now you see, this is the kind of waste of #taxpayers money that we SHOULD be objecting to! If ALL #Jobcentres were closed and all benefit claimants had to go through the long-winded process of 'online' processing of their claims, many wouldn't bother, and just think of all the money saved and recouped by selling-off the many Jobcentre buildings and reducing unnecessary staffing costs! A small centralised team could handle the online processing and save £millions in wages! (and then see if THEY can easily find work!!!) Instead, this #government intend wasting even MORE of OUR money, employing more civil servants and funding more people to get mentally ill people working rather than being treated. Most of the people they want to "get back into the workplace" can't find jobs because there aren't any! Many people are forced out by #ageism in the workplace, or are #disabled or genuinely ill and thus, unfit for work. I know, because I am 67 and have struggled constantly to get decent paying work, despite a long and successful work life and many skills. #NotMyLabourParty https://lnkd.in/eGy6Q_jc

👷The government has unveiled the Get Britain Working White Paper, a plan to tackle unemployment and economic inactivity with a bold ambition: achieving an 80% employment rate. Gethin Nadin, Chair of the PLG on Workplace Wellbeing, commented: ''This PLG is extremely interested in the detail of the Get Britain Working White Paper. In particular the review into the role of British employers in promoting health. As evidenced by many employers (including some of our founding sponsors) there is a keenness for companies to do more to protect and support the wellbeing of their people. We look forward to seeing how the PLG can support the government's plans." The plan includes: 🔹 £240 million investment to transform jobcentres into a modern National Jobs and Careers Service, shifting from monitoring benefits to empowering careers. 🔹 Youth Guarantee: Every 18-21-year-old will have access to apprenticeships, training, or quality education. 🔹 Tackling health-driven inactivity: Expanded mental health support, reduced NHS waiting times, and a prevention-first approach. 🔹 Empowering local leaders, devolved resources for mayors and councils to craft solutions that fit their communities. 🔹 Supporting inclusion: A new independent review will address how employers can better support disabled individuals and those with health conditions in the workplace. These reforms aim to unlock growth, break down barriers to opportunity, and ensure every person has the chance for rewarding and meaningful work. 💬 What’s next? The government will be consulting to ensure voices — especially those of young people and individuals with disabilities — are at the heart of these changes. https://lnkd.in/edzVP-KP #WorkplaceWellbeing #Careers #SkillsDevelopment #YouthOpportunities #GetBritainWorking

As unemployment rises employers across the country, employers are being urged to find ways to bring more people back into the workplace. The Work and Health Programme is one service that employers can use to achieve this. It was set to help get people who have faced barriers to work back into the workforce. So if your an employer with roles to fill click on the link below to sign up and see what the programme can do for you. The Work and Health Programme is fully funded so the service is provided for free. https://buff.ly/3MkVLeR #disabilityconfident #autism #employability #mentalhealthmatters #enablingbetterlives #Mentalhealthawareness #accesstowork #recruitment