Creating fair access to work for people in their 50s & 60s @ageing_better. Ex @instituteforgov, very ex-teacher. PhD Victorian dementia. Likes charts AND poems.
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Alright - let’s talk 80% employment target. 🎯
Blair wanted to do it, but the closest he got was 73%. The closest we’ve got in the last 160 years is 76% - on the eve of the pandemic.
So - how can the new Government get there?
Seen some commentary about how academic this Board is.
I'd put in a bid for @ersa_news to be on there. If we're serious about engaging more ppl in services, we need the smaller providers who know how to do outreach better than anyone.
(and someone from @Ageing_Better obvs)
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall met with experts on the new Labour Market Advisory Board the first time yesterday
The Board will develop new ideas and initiatives for consideration, to bring down the levels of economic inactivity
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ALT Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall, "Spiralling inactivity is the greatest employment challenge for a generation, with a near record 2.8 million people out of work due to long-term sickness. Addressing these challenges will take time, but we’re going to fix the foundations of the economy and tackle economic inactivity. The Board’s knowledge, expertise and insight will help us to rebuild Britain as we deliver our growth mission, drive up opportunity and make every part of the country better off."
Having only just started to re-engage with twitter, I've hopped on over to the blue place this morning, and it really is better.
So, if anyone is still here...you can find me over there. Same handle.
Really enjoyed this piece.
There is no longer a 'retirement' age - but the State still draws a clear line between 'working age' and 'pensioners'.
This doesn't reflect reality. Lots of people pre-State Pension Age can't work; and lots of people post-SPA do/need to.
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As Dr Ferdous notes, replacing 'chronological age' with 'functional age' isn't entirely feasible (from an administrative perspective, at least).
But we can definitely do better.
We @Ageing_Better think @DWPgovuk needs to reform our social security system, so it better matches the reality of ageing in the UK in the 21st century.
That means reviewing the way they approach people in their 60s. Read more here: ageing-better.org.uk/news/cl…
Maybe making those people *even poorer* will push them towards claiming (thus, in fact, making them better off than they would have been).
@IndependentAge suggests that the feeling of 'not being poor enough' is a major factor in not claiming. Alongside stigma, of course.
This is what I love about the Age Friendly Communities movement.
It harnesses the power of people working inside/with #localgov who view a system level approach to ageing as a way to solve their problems.
And then supports them in a joyful, practical, bottom-up way.
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The State Pension Age is set to rise to 67 before the end of this Parliament.
The highest adult poverty rate is among ppl age 60-SPA.
If we don’t do anything to make work more accessible for more of us as we age, that ⬆️ will just prolong many people’s misery.
Liz Kendall’s ideas have the potential to make things better for 50+ workers and jobseekers. Now we’ve got to go from potential to plans!
And here is a blueprint the Gvt can work from: ageing-better.org.uk/news/cl…