📝Today, we release new longitudinal analysis that shows that insecure work in the UK is a trap for millions not a short-term stop gap (1/8). #NoProgress. 🔗

@RunnymedeTrust @YF_Foundation Working with employers in 4 areas where youth unemployment is high for those with Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Black heritage, we are exploring opportunities and challenges they face in addressing the recruitment and retention of young people and tackling ethnic disparities. (3/3).

@RunnymedeTrust @YF_Foundation 1 in 8 people aged 16-24 in the UK are not in education, employment, or training (NEET). Whilst policymakers & employers often point the finger at a “lack of work readiness”, evidence shows insecurity, structural discrimination & our employment system all play a part. (2/3).

Not everyone gets a fair shot at work. So what can be done about it? Emelia Williams introduces our new partnership project with @RunnymedeTrust & @YF_Foundation to deliver place-based research in #Bradford, #Leeds, #Brent, and #Walsall.

As leaders from across the North West discuss how to tackle health-related workforce issues at the #WorkHealthForum, Professor Stavroula Leka from @LancasterManage is calling for employers to focus on better job design to help workers with ill health thrive in work. (7/7)

> Over a third of North West workers think their job is bad for their health (39%) .> Nearly two thirds of workers (64%) in the region have gone to work when sick and four in ten respondents (42%) stated they have missed or delayed medical appointments due to work. (6/7).

> 1 in 3 (35%) say they are worried their deteriorating health will impact their ability to remain in employment in the long-term .> Over half of respondents stated their employer took their physical health (56%) or mental health seriously (54%) (5/7).

Our @Survation survey of NW workers shows further action is needed to support workers remain in employment: .> 1 in 10 workers in the North West of England (40%) have experienced a health decline in the last 12 months that has impacted the way they do their job (4/7).

> Parts of the North West have seen larger than average increases. There have been higher than average rises in #Lancashire (14.3 percentage points higher), #Cumbria (+6.5pp) & #GreaterManchester (+5.6pp). (3/7).

Analysis of the Annual Population Survey shows that: > An estimated 347,200 people are not working or looking for work due to ill health in the NW, a rise of more than 75,000 people (5.5 percentage points) since before the pandemic in 2019 - higher than the UK average. (2/7).

Today, we have released new analysis of the health-related issues facing workers and employers in the North West of England to mark our #WorkHealthForum taking place at @LancasterManage for leaders across the North West. (1/7).

Join us on Tuesday 1 July between 14.00 - 15.30 for our online event exploring insights from the largest mixed methods study of UK disabled workers’ experiences of remote and hybrid work. Sign up here:

Are you a business leader, policymaker, HR specialist, health and safety expert, third sector provider, health professional or researcher interested in tackling health-related workforce challenges?. Join us on Wednesday 2 July in Lancaster for the Health and Work Forum.

Work Foundation Director Ben Harrison brings the #WorkHeathSummit to a close. Thanks to all who took part today.

"We are talking in very large numbers here, and behind every one of those is an individual tragedy of somebody who might not be able to find the support and the information that is right for them." Rt Hon Chloe Smith at #WorkHealthSummit

"One of the things we are seeing is the amount of time spent out of out work and entrenched inactivity. Early intervention is something we see in other areas, and we have got to get to a system where people get meaningful support very early." Fiona Monahan at #WorkHealthSummit

"The sort of jobs that are often available particularly to people with a disability or a long-term health conditions will be lower-paid jobs. They often have less flexibility." Dame Clare Moriarty at #WorkHealthSummit

"If people have fallen out of the labour market due to ill health, then being able to access the health services that will help them is something that cannot be taken for granted." Dame Clare Moriarty at #WorkHealthSummit

"Employers should be paying more attention to retention and not just to recruitment, because every time you have a retention problem, you have a big recruitment problem. " Rt Hon Alan Milburn at #WorkHealthSummit

"We have to think about job design more actively, and we have to think about how there is an opportunity for good work that fits people’s circumstances. It is a responsibility for employers." Rt Hon Alan Milburn at #WorkHealthSummit

"Getting people back into the labour market once they have left, or worse still with young people, have never been in, is hard yards. It takes time." Rt Hon Alan Milburn