ReWAGE News Archive

ReWAGE’s new report ‘Getting LSIPs right’ argues that it is important that this new investment in England’s skills infrastructure is effective, but that the current remit for local skills improvement plans (LSIPs) is unlikely to address the UK’s skills problems, suggesting how it could be adjusted. The paper considers four areas that are crucial to making LSIPs work: engagement with employers, the role of FE colleges, who is being offered training, and the complexities of the UK job market and looks at how these could be improved to impact more positively on the UK's productivity and ability to compete.

A new paper from ReWAGE: Reversing the staffing problems in social care - the case for a new approach looks ‘behind the numbers’ to find out more about the current recruitment and retention crisis facing the social care sector.

It concludes that there is a wealth of existing data about the adult social care labour market (the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS)[1] for England) that can be interrogated to identify solutions that are affordable for society, that care workers can buy into, and that can be sustained in the long-term to reduce the pressure on wages and improve working conditions.

ReWAGE is fortunate in having some of the UK’s foremost thinkers on its Expert Group, drawn from leading universities and research organisations from across the UK. Between them they have a huge breadth of knowledge, covering such subjects as the labour market, job quality, employment relations and the changing nature of work.

This week we are turning the spotlight onto Chris Forde, Professor of Employment at the University of Leeds and ReWAGE’s expert on the changing nature of work.