This webinar brings together speakers from delivery organisations and partner bodies to share practical lessons on designing, delivering and evaluating effective health and employment support. The discussion explores challenges, successes, and emerging priorities for local areas.

Across the UK, 8.5 million people are out of work because of poor health, creating a growing challenge for local and national policymakers.

High-quality, locally tailored work and health support can play an important role in helping people move into, remain in, or return to good work. There is already significant activity in this space, including DWP’s WorkWell pilots, and the NHS‘s Health and Growth Accelerators. However, there is still much to learn about what makes local programmes effective in practice.

This webinar features speakers from Learning and Work Institute, Cumbria Youth Alliance and Disability Insight. It is the first in a series is the first in a series delivered through the Department for Work and Pensions’ Labour Market Evidence Programme, which aims to help local policymakers better understand what works in improving labour market outcomes for out-of-work and in-work individuals. Find out more about this programme of work.

Our speakers

30 Medi 2026

From appetite to opportunity

This report for The St Martin’s Group draws on a survey of more than 1,000 HR decision makers to examine employers’ plans to recruit young people, the routes they expect to use, the barriers they face, and the support they need.

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22 Medi 2026

Building an AI-ready workforce: Creating a skills system that prepares UK knowledge workers for the AI transition

AI has transformative potential for the UK economy and could present a net uplift to productivity of up to £80 billion by 2035. Yet the UK workforce does not – yet – have the skills to successfully adopt and scale AI technologies in a truly transformative way.

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22 Medi 2026

AI skills investment could add £80 billion to the UK economy

The UK can secure an £80 billion boost to its economy by 2035 if the Government and businesses act together to strengthen the technical skills system, according to a major report published today by L&W and The Rigby Foundation.

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15 Medi 2026

Labour Market Briefing: September 2026

Our analysis of the ONS labour market statistics, released on the morning of 15 September 2026.

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15 Medi 2026

Labour market dashboard

Every month, Learning and Work Institute produces detailed and timely analysis of the latest labour market statistics from ONS. Explore our interactive charts.

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15 Medi 2026

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s Youth Guarantee Trailblazer: Implementation and process evaluation

This report presents findings from L&W’s implementation and process evaluation of year one of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s Youth Guarantee Trailblazer.

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15 Medi 2026

Labour market stats response, September 2026

L&W’s chief executive Stephen Evans responds to the latest labour market data from ONS.

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7 Medi 2026

UK must make training the ‘go-to’ response to skills needs, or risk holding back growth, new report warns

The Government’s plans to get the economy growing risk falling short unless it takes action to reverse sharp falls in the training employees get at work, new analysis warns.

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7 Medi 2026

Understanding employer investment in skills

This is the third and final report of our project funded by the Nuffield Foundation looking at employer investment in skills, and how employees are responding to the need to upskill and retrain in a transitioning economy.

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