

Scott Parkin FRSA
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@scottypuk
Parkin Towers with my crew. Love music, film, rugby, cricket and a brew. Amazed by what communities can achieve with the right support. All views are my own.




🏆 We are delighted to announce that @E_T_Foundation & @AoC_info have been crowned winners of the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Heroes Award for EDI Initiative of the Year, sponsored by @ToyotaUK! Congratulations and thank you to everybody who entered! 🎉 #wsukEDIheroes




Today's jobs figures are pretty poor again. Even clearer now that single biggest challenge is how we help older people back into work. Below shows change in 'economic inactivity' since pandemic. Incredibly, *80%* of growth is over 50s - up by 560k. Flat/ falling for all others 1/

Summary of our short analysis of today's labour market stats 🧵 1⃣ The labour market continues to recover but employment remains below pre-pandemic levels. The number of vacancies in the ONS vacancy survey remains at record levels.



WATCH 'Sanctions are bad for employers - they don’t want people applying for jobs who don’t want to be there' - @tonywilsonIES @EmploymtStudies on why new universal credit rules are bad news for jobseekers and businesses @theipaper @Albert_HEO @kiaelise1 inews.co.uk/news/universal…







Comment from IES Director @tonywilsonIES on this morning's just-announced Labour Market Statistics from @ONS. Our detailed briefing note will be released later today - sign up here to receive directly to your inbox: employment-studies.co.uk/news-press/ies…

On the National Insurance Levy, clearly right that we focus on distributional impact on households. But - it's also a ~£4bn rise in employer labour costs at a fragile point in the recovery, much of which will be passed on to workers. Govt hasn't published ALL the detail but 1/





On Wednesday I am teaching a lesson on E-Safety as part of Safeguarding week at my placement school. I would really appreciate as much interaction with this post as possible to show my children how quickly and how far online posts can spread. Thank you! 😊⭐️