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📊 Read Magdalena Domínguez and @benzaranko.bsky.social's report on justice spending and explore the data here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
📗 Find out more about our Transforming Justice project funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org here: ifs.org.uk/transforming...
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What you need to know:
🔹 Deadline: 12pm Wednesday 26 Feb
🔹 Appointment: 17 Mar
🔹 Project start date: 24 Mar
🔹Tenders up to circa £100,000
Must be a UK-based organisation with an excellent track record of participatory work with young people.
Read the tender and apply: ow.ly/bKx150UUaNu
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💷The IFS Deaton Review notes that if firms are not more productive, wage growth is likely to stall. It argues for a focus on increasing productivity as the surest way to raise wages and reduce inequality, especially at the middle and bottom end of the workforce. ow.ly/vULi50UMt0V
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⚙️Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing findings were presented at a conference as part of #ProductivityWeek. The review examined the implications of AI & automation on work & working lives including its impact on job quality, wellbeing, & employment opportunities. ow.ly/mKrB50UM01H
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📊One outcome of The Economy 2030 Inquiry is the need to focus on Britain’s second cities. It found they have productivity levels below the national average, making the country as a whole poorer, with Greater Manchester and Birmingham in particular underperforming. ow.ly/bJNG50UMrYP
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🏢Chronic or persistent pain affects around 28m adults in the UK, reducing their ability to work or be productive. This Oliver Bird Fund project is assessing the feasibility of a Pain-at-Work toolkit for staff living with pain, looking at ways to help them stay in the workforce. ow.ly/cUaq50ULeLs
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🏠The latest ONS data shows 24% of working-age people are classified as disabled, with only 54.2% in employment. This project is identifying how working from home and hybrid working can be designed to better support the recruitment, retention and progression of disabled workers. ow.ly/8c3H50UMqXG
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The final @ifow.org report underscores why human experience must be central to technology adoption, proposing a bold new social & economic paradigm of Good Work.
📖 Explore the insights & recommendations shaping a better future of work in the full report:
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/the-...
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We’re also proud to highlight that The Pissarides Review into the Future of Work was funded by the @nuffieldfoundation.org with Warwick Business School as a partner for the event.
Register for online access today!
www.eventbrite.com/e/making-the...
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The team includes expert academics from
@sussexcircy.bsky.social, @researchip.bsky.social, LSE, @manmetuni.bsky.social, @uclofficial.bsky.social.
Some Local authority partners:
@greatermcr.bsky.social, @oldhamcouncil.bsky.social and @rochdalecouncil.bsky.social.
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Our Education Programme Head Eleanor Ireland says that whilst the uplift is an important step in the right direction, further increases to bring it in line with the Primary Pupil Premium would allow providers to better support the learning and development of these children.
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Specifically, the increase to Early Years Pupil Premium will channel more resources to children & families experiencing the highest levels of disadvantage, and chimes with policy calls from recent Nuffield-funded research from CEI.
Full report: www.nuffieldfoundation.org/wp-content/u...
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A major Nuffield programme calls for a holistic, cross-departmental Early Childhood strategy prioritising family-focused, joined-up services. This funding, plus the Opportunity Mission & Child Poverty Taskforce, are encouraging steps.
Our policy calls: www.nuffieldfoundation.org/news/nuffiel...
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