Policy Hub
In April 2010, the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) published a paper which insists that, of all the pressing policy issues confronting the new government following this year’s general election, given high unemployment, the changing demands for skills, the need to increase productivity and to reduce expenditure on welfare, policies relating to employment and skills will be among the most important.
With over 40 years’ experience of policy evaluation and labour market research in the UK and abroad, IES has gathered a wide range of evidence on what are the most important issues that need to be tackled to raise employment and skills levels across the economy.
The paper identifies six important policy issues that will be first across the desks of the new ministers with briefs relating to education, skills, health, welfare and work. It also sets out some of the solutions they will need to consider to help address these key issues.
Employment and skills: six critical priorities for the next government