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Empowering engagement: a stronger voice for older people: the government response to John Elbourne's review
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Older people are to have a bigger say in developing central, regional and local Government policies announced Rt Hon Rosie Winterton, Minister for Pensions and the Ageing Society today, in response to John Elbourne’s review of older people’s engagement with Government. A new national UK Advisory Forum on Ageing will give older people a direct line to Government to comment on new policy ideas, services, legislation and what areas they feel the Government needs to address
Fuller working lives: a partnership approach
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 50
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication encourages businesses to retain, retrain and recruit older workers and presents the benefits of a fuller working life. It explains how as the population ages, employers need to draw on the skills and experience of older workers to avoid loss of labour. It also explains how working longer can improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and result in an increase in income at in later life and retirement. It sets out a number of new recommendations directly from businesses to support older workers to remain in the workforce and to help employers retain, retrain and recruit older workers so they have fuller working lives. It also looks at the action individuals can take by developing new skills and training for a new career, or reinventing the notion of work by providing childcare for grandchildren or taking up volunteering. The report concludes by describing five actions the Government is taking to support older workers, which include: developing an evidence base on ways to support employers to retain, retrain and recruit older workers; supporting people who need more help to stay and return to the workplace, such as women, carers, people with long term health conditions and disabilities; and improving the Jobcentre Plus offer for older workers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Building a society for all ages
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In 2007 for the first time in the UK there were more people over State Pension age than children. This document was developed to ensure that as a society we are able to make the most of the demographic change. This will require a major cultural shift, where people are not defined by their age. This strategy sets out a programme of action to support the changes for individuals, families, the workplace, economy, public services and communities. Contents include: improving later life today; the challenge ahead, and a vision for the future; having the life you want; older people at the heart of families; engaging with work and the economy; improving financial support; better public services for later life; building communities for all ages.
Independence and well-being of older people: baseline report: a social portrait of ageing in the UK
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The implications of an ageing society are wide reaching. As well as ensuring financial security, it is equally important to promote wider well-being and independence for older people, both before and after retirement. Older people continue to contribute to the economy, society and their local communities and to enjoy active lives. Income is not the only factor – and often not the main factor – in ensuring a happy and fulfilling later life. Housing, health, care, transport and social contacts all play a crucial part in enabling older people to live life to the full. A set of indicators of older people’s independence and well-being that have been selected and cover five domains a) Independence in supportive communitiesp; b) Healthy active living; c) Fairness in work and later life; d) Material well-being; and e) Support and care.
Opportunity age: meeting the challenges of ageing in the 21st century
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 107p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper is about shedding the stereotypes that surround our older people and instead ensuring that government can help people to live the lives that they want and deserve. This is not just about traditional issues such as pensions or care homes. It is about allowing people to work longer if they want to and ending the nonsense of good, able workers being thrown on the scrapheap just because of their age. To ensure people have access to education courses or sports clubs and giving people the independence and choice they want in choosing the services that they need.
Opportunity age: volume 2: a social portrait of ageing in the UK
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper is about shedding the stereotypes that surround our older people and instead ensuring that government can help people to live the lives that they want and deserve. This is not just about traditional issues such as pensions or care homes. It is about allowing people to work longer if they want to and ending the nonsense of good, able workers being thrown on the scrapheap just because of their age. To ensure people have access to education courses or sports clubs and giving people the independence and choice they want in choosing the services that they need.
Simplicity, security and choice: working and saving for retirement
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 168p.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
This White paper sets out proposals for better information, simpler pensions, simplified tax treatment, better protection and more flexible retirement are designed to enable people to make their own choices for retirement. They build on the foundation of the State Pension.