Policy Solutions
Our policy solutions inform and influence policy makers. They also start a dialogue and generate discussions with our members and supporters. Our ideas foster debate and relationships within the learning, skills and employment sectors and beyond.Bridging the Gap: next steps for the apprenticeship levy
Apprenticeships are a great way to combine learning with earning, helping people build their careers and enabling employers to meet their skills needs. In 2017, the government introduced the apprenticeship levy in an effort to boost employer...Read more »
Best practice in designing and delivering pre-apprenticeship programmes
Learning and Work Institute is delighted to be working in collaboration with J.P.Morgan to identify ways in which organisations can design and deliver pre-apprenticeship programmes, that provide a pathway to apprenticeships for young people, across Europe....Read more »
Time For Action: learning and skills for economic growth and social justice
The UK’s skills base has long lagged that of comparator countries and over the last decade the rate of improvement in the UK’s skills base has stalled. This is the result of cuts in public funding...Read more »
Social Metrics: Measuring the outcomes of non-accredited learning
This report sets out the results of work undertaken by L&W in 2017/18 to develop and test the use of social metrics in Adult Community Learning provision to capture a range of wider outcomes of learning. ...Read more »
Developing a Jobs-Plus model for the UK
Over the last two years, we have worked with nineteen social landlords across Britain – brought together by Give us a Chance – to develop these proposals. They build on the highly successful Jobs-Plus model implemented...Read more »
Young Adult Carers Employment Report
This report presents the findings from research conducted by Learning and Work Institute on behalf of the Department for Education, which aimed to gather robust evidence on young adult carers’ barriers to employment. The research explored:...Read more »
Supporting Young Apprentices: guidance for employers
Young apprentices can be some of the most dedicated workers, bringing fresh perspectives and new skill sets into the workforce. They provide opportunities for employers to ‘grow their own’ and develop a crucial talent pipeline for...Read more »
Learning, Work, and Health: the next 70 years
The National Health Service was always intended as part of a coordinated package of measures linked to inequalities in housing, welfare, work, and learning. However, over the past seventy years, as demands on the NHS have grown, policies for...Read more »
Decision making of adult learners
The Department for Education (DfE) commissioned Learning and Work Institute (L&W), in partnership with Kantar, to undertake research to understand adults’ experiences of, and decisions about, learning. This report presents the findings from in-depth interviews with...Read more »
Employer engagement and capacity to support T Level industry placements
IFF Research and Learning and Work Institute were commissioned by the Department for Education to better understand employers’ capacity and likelihood to offer T Level industry placements. It also aimed to establish any challenges and barriers that employers may...Read more »
Supporting People with English Language Needs to Access Apprenticeships
A Guide for Employers, and Providers of ESOL and Apprenticeships Drawn from interviews with employers, ESOL providers and apprenticeship providers, this guide has been designed to raise awareness of ways in which ESOL learners can benefit...Read more »
Making the Transition to Adulthood: Framework and Resources for Young Adult Carers
Learning and Work is pleased to announce the launch of a new resource for young adult carers. Making the Transition to Adulthood: Framework and Resources for Young Adult Carers. Funded by the Department for Education, the...Read more »
All Change: Where next for apprenticeships?
An essay collection with leading experts setting out ways to improve the quality of apprenticeships and ensure fair access to training. The Government’s apprenticeship reforms are the biggest in a generation and include the Apprenticeship Levy,...Read more »
22 February 2018Exploring models for part-time and flexible apprenticeships
Apprenticeships are a key government policy to support transition to the labour market, social mobility, economic growth and improved productivity. While evidence shows that the benefits to apprentices, to businesses and to our wider economy and...Read more »
20 November 2017Apprentice Pay – Sticking to the Rules
This report presents the findings from our research and makes recommendations for improving employer awareness of and compliance with the National Minimum Wage for apprentices.
15 March 2017Three Million Apprenticeships – Building ladders of opportunity
Apprenticeships are a great way to combine learning and earning and meet employers’ skills needs. That is why they have a long history dating back several centuries, though today’s apprenticeships have a wider focus including on...Read more »
31 January 2017Local People: Local Growth
Since 2012, we have been at the forefront of calls for Government to devolve more resource and responsibility to cities and local areas. We argue that local areas should have a leading role in building better...Read more »
31 October 2016Three Million Careers: Making the Apprenticeship Levy Work
The Government has a target of three million apprenticeship starts in England by 2020, and is introducing an Apprenticeship Levy on the payroll of large employers to fund this increase and to encourage greater employer engagement...Read more »
31 July 2016Halving the Gap: Making the Work and Health Programme work for disabled people
6.9 million people in the UK aged 16-64 have a long-term health condition or disability. This is equivalent to around one in six of the ‘working age’ population. However,while 80% of those who are not disabled...Read more »
1 July 2016Power to the People: The case for Personal Learning Accounts
Learning is central to a fair and prosperous society. The links between learning throughout life and national prosperity, business success, societal cohesion, and individual opportunity and life chances are clear and well established. Learning helps you...Read more »
1 April 2016Close The Gap: The Learning and Work agenda for the next Mayor of London
London is one of the world’s truly great and iconic cities. It draws in people and ideas from around the world, offering unprecedented opportunity. It is a vital engine of the UK economy and a job...Read more »
1 September 2015Apprentice Charter – High Quality, Better Outcomes
The government wants to see another 3 million apprentices by 2020, and that’s a vision that we can all buy in to. But to make that happen we need to make sure apprenticeships are a high...Read more »
1 April 2015Ten Policies for Ten People
Ten Policies for Ten People outlines changes that NIACE and Inclusion would like the next Government to put in place in its first hundred days – changes that can make a real difference quickly to people’s...Read more »
1 March 2015Making Migration Work
Our policy solution calling for urgent action to unlock the skills of migrants and UK residents.
1 February 2015No Limits: From Getting By To Getting On
Britain faces a wages crisis, underpinned by low productivity. Britain’s social security system doesn’t support aspiration. Britain needs new support for people in work to progress. For the last seven years, people’s wages have risen more...Read more »