Month: April 2017

It’s time for public policy action on the issues of New Middle Age

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New Middle Age has identified key issues for the 50 to retirement generation and looks to public policy makers to deliver policies to support lasting and sustainable change. We need policies to address key emerging trends: increasing longevity and better health; age related inequalities; and the complex area of over 50 employment, productivity and training. It’s time for public policy action on the issues of New Middle Age. New Middle Age challenges public policy makers to deliver for the 50 to retirement generation. New Middle Age calls for the recognition of a new generation – from 50 to retirement, whenever that may...

ILC-UK/renEWL/Uncertain Futures conference ‘Overcoming Inequalities: Addressing barriers to extending working lives’

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Yesterday, Angela was pleased to be able to attend the ILC-UK/renEWL/Uncertain Futures conference ‘Overcoming Inequalities: Addressing barriers to extending working lives’. The day included presentations from a large and impressive line-up of speakers, from the research project team, employer and third sector representatives and including a personal review of his last year’s work by John Cridland. Here she picks out some of the key issues. Structural inequalities Health and socio-economic inequalities, as well as ethnic and family structures, underpin many of the inequalities observed in achieving extended working lives. And the foundations for these inequalities are likely to have been...