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Posted 17.09.2020
Building Better Opportunities in the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership area work with people of all ages. We aim to help people who have barriers to employment. Many of our participants are young people but we also work with a significant number of people aged over 50 year. With the number of people expected to lose employment due to COVID-19 this number will increase significantly.
A new report from the Learning and Work Institute and the Centre for Better Ageing highlight these issues.
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a labour market crisis. Despite unprecedented measures to prevent a rise in unemployment – including the state stepping in to pay the wages of over nine million furloughed workers – the claimant count has risen more sharply than at any time in the last century.
The crisis follows a period when employment among older workers had reached historic highs. The report, in partnership with Centre for Ageing Better, shows that there is a real risk is that the pandemic could reverse this trend, leading to long-term unemployment for older workers:
The report sets out three steps that the Government can take to support older workers to prevent long-term unemployment in the wake of COVID-19:
BBO is having a significant impact on individual lives, supporting people to increase their confidence, independence and achieve their employment aspirations.
See what our participants have to say in these case studies …