What is Get Britain Working?
Get Britain Working Whitepaper
The Get Britain Working White Paper lays the foundation for boosting the UK’s employment rate by addressing economic inactivity, transforming job centres, and integrating health and employment support.
Core Objectives:
- Empowering local areas to design tailored solutions.
- Tackling economic inactivity.
- Transforming job centres and career services.
- Integrating health and employment support.
This will focus on Health-related Employment Support that will expand individual placement and support (IPS) to 140,000 more people by 2028-29, add a further 8,500 mental health staff to reduce waiting time to treatment, the launch of ‘Connect to Work’ which will support those who have been economically inactive for six months or more and may be furthest from the workplace. There will also be some reform of health and disability benefits to aid employment and to ensure that it pays to work.
Finally, there will be the potential to expand the pilot ‘Work Well’ services that supports those with moderate needs to retain or gain employment through the integration of employment and health care initiatives.
Devolved, Collaborative and Localised Approaches:
Local decision making will have more emphasis as a direct result of Devolution (devolving power) will create more mayoral authorities and put more emphasis on place-based decision making. The Get Britain Working approach will see the integration of job centres and careers services plus the need for work, health and care systems to create locally tailored ‘Get Britain Working Plans’, in South Midlands this will be delivered through the Get South Midlands Working Partnership with two Work and Health Stewardship Collaboratives in Northamptonshire and in BLMK, the purpose of these collaboratives will have a focus on convening, co-production and transformation across our systems, they will inform the ongoing delivery of Get South Midlands Working Initiatives.
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To inform a co-produced approach to creating a Get South Midlands Working Plan a series of engagement opportunities have been planned throughout the Summer and key dates and ways to register your interest to get involved are here (insert links and calendar)