LFS suggests that employment and unemployment have risen as economic inactivity have fallen but given volatility in data, it's difficult to determine whether these are genuine trends or the result of previous estimates overstating economic inactivity

Hospitality and retail sectors have seen the largest declines in employment and among the fastest pay growth, pointing to the combined impacts of the rise in employers’ national insurance increases and increases to the National Living Wage.

@employmentstudies.bsky.social and @learnworkuk.bsky.social are working with DWP and Youth Futures Foundation to evaluate the pilot programme to look at the difference it’s making and why learningandwork.org.uk/news-and-pol...

This time last year the core partners, @learnworkuk.bsky.social, @employmentstudies.bsky.social and Communities that Work, with support from
@mdrc-news.bsky.social, were busy working w/ housing association partners to get 10 pilot sites off the ground, and it’s great to see the progress made since.

Central London has seen some of the largest falls in employee jobs, with early estimates suggesting a fall of 3.2% in Westminster over last year