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Levelling up at work - fixing work to level up across the UK

This report argues that poor quality work is a key cause of broader inequality across the country. Unless we reduce the numbers of people in jobs that are in low-paid, insecure and offer no route to better quality work, little will change in the lived experience of a significant number and proportion of people across every part of the UK. We cannot level up the country without levelling up at work.

- 18 Oct 2021
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A new further education funding and accountability system

The TUC welcomes the opportunity to comment on the government’s proposals to develop a new further education funding and accountability system. However, the country is already facing a skills crisis and there is a need for urgent action on a much greater scale than the policy framework set out in this consultation and the preceding consultation on the National Skills Fund. The TUC has set out detailed critiques of the skills white paper in our regular skills policy bulletins and our response to the National Skills Fund consultation

- 11 Oct 2021
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National Skills Fund

The country is already facing a national skills crisis and there is a need for urgent action on a much greater scale than the policy framework set out in the skills white paper and this consultation. Government should bring employer bodies and trade unions together to agree strategies to tackle labour and skills shortages, including getting industries and sectors to prioritise delivering decent terms and conditions, direct employment and a proper pay rise.

- 04 Oct 2021
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