The Demos team and its work features regularly in the press on the key issues of the day. Read our statements and articles by our team here.
After more than three years of speculation, the immigration proposals are finally out. The government calls it ‘a firm and fair points-based system’. Effective from 1 January 2021, the policy is aimed at reducing immigration and at boosting skills through...
The DWP and BEIS Select Committee’s Framework for Modern Employment is a strong statement against the exploitation of some of Britain’s poorest workers. The Government should certainly take forward its proposal for new statutory definitions of employment statuses centred around...
Graham, who’s in his early 60s, has been unemployed now for over five years. Health problems brought a 15-year career as a traveling sales executive to a premature end, and since then he’s struggled to find paid work that can...
Last week, the Chief Inspector of schools delivered what he called a ‘shot across the bow’ of the Government over apprenticeships. There is a risk, Ofsted warned, that the target of three million apprenticeships this Parliament (compared with 2.2 million...
One surprise announcement of the Summer Budget is the new apprenticeships levy. This is intended to help meet the government’s target of 3 million more apprenticeships by 2020. In first proposing the levy, Alison Wolf argued that the state of...
What makes a job ‘good’? In the midst of a jobs-rich recovery, in a relatively flexible labour market, attention inevitably shifts to the quality of the jobs being created – both in terms of the contribution to national productivity, and...
