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Addressing Economic Inactivity and Poor Health Tickets, Tue 10 Oct 2023 at 14:00 [1]

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Date: 2023-10 

Unemployment has reached historic lows in many parts of the UK. However, the economic inactivity rate, which had generally been falling in recent decades, increased during the pandemic.

Across the UK, much of the reason for this economic inactivity increase has been attributed to a rise in those reporting as ‘long-term sick’ (ONS, 2023). The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that the number of new disability benefit claimants doubled between 2021 and 2022. According to the Office for Budget Responsibility, ‘the number of people citing long-term sickness as their main reason for being inactive has proven to be the most significant and persistent legacy of the pandemic, rising steadily over the past three years…[and] now more than explains the overall increase in inactivity relative to pre-pandemic levels’.

IPPO's first event on the issue focuses on economic inactivity and its policy solutions for people aged 50 and over. This event will focus on economic inactivity and ill-health, which affects workers of all ages.

This public roundtable from the International Public Policy Observatory will offer a forum to share and learn from previous and current interventions. Invited expert speakers will reflect on what works and what doesn’t work from current interventions to address economic inactivity within communities across the UK, and internationally.

Speakers will include:

Prof. Graeme Roy, Professor of Economics at Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow and IPPO Scotland lead

Dr Robert Richardson, IPPO Scotland Research Associate

Dr Anne Devlin, Senior Research Fellow in the Economic Social Research Institute, Ireland a labour economics expert who has published widely on the economics of disability as well as economic inactivity in the North and South of Ireland.

Dave Berry, the Work and Skills Lead from Manchester City Council

Dr Jakov Jandric, Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour from the Supporting Healthy Ageing at Work project (SHAW)

Nicholas Werran, Partnerships Director at Breaking Barriers Innovations

We will also hear from public sector organisations who have delivered local interventions to address inactivity, particularly interventions which work with people who interact with the mental health system.

Expert presentations will be followed by a Q&A session, where the audience will have the opportunity to pose questions to the panellists.

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