This encompasses priorities around:
- supporting groups that are under-represented in the labour market, including disabled people, who were disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
- initiatives to support people from these groups to start, stay, and succeed in work
transforming support for disabled people and people with health conditions to promote independent living and improve the customer experience
- influencing positive employer behaviours and promote good Occupational Health practice to help people maintain attachment to the labour market
Send correspondence and further questions to evidence.strategyteam@dwp.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
This research focuses on improving support for working carers. Recruiting, retaining and returning carers to the workplace have been identified as major economic and social issues in the UK. They are likely to become eve...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield
The project focuses on improving support for working carers, which directly addresses the question of how DWP can support carers in their caring roles and return to work or progression in the labour market.
Currently it is estimated that one-in-five adults in Northern Ireland (NI) have caring responsibilities. A total of 214,000 (12%) people were providing some form of unpaid care on Census Day 2011 in NI, compared with 185...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Ulster
The project aims to provide a comprehensive description of unpaid caring in NI and its impact on employment and income, which partially addresses the question of how DWP can support carers in their caring roles and return to work or progression in the labour market.
Against the backdrop of the UK's ageing population and workforce, there is widening economic and social concern about high rates of economic inactivity (early retirement) among people aged 50+. Around a fifth of those wh...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
The project focuses on supporting older workers in the care sector, which partially addresses the question about supporting carers, but does not specifically address return to work or progression in the labour market.