At 58, Janet started to suffer from a bad back. She started taking medication but the pain became so bad that she had to leave her job as a retail assistant.
Matthew Taylor, the lead for a review of modern employment, has called for the improvement of the quality of work in the UK to become a new “national goal”.
There are around 3.5 million people not in work between 50 and the state pension Age, and around a million of those stopped work before they were ready.
Key ideas and insights of practitioners who attended our workshop on employment are detailed, including possible interventions for individual personas.