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Emily
Andrews

Deputy Director for Work
Emily leads Ageing Better’s work to create equitable access to work for people in their 50s and 60s.

Emily heads up our Work Action Area team. This team delivers the Age-friendly Employer Pledge, various projects to improve the quality of employment support for over 50s, and all our policy and influencing work relating to employment and older workers.

Before joining Ageing Better, Emily was an Associate Director at the Institute for Government, where she led a number of research projects relating to Government effectiveness – including Performance Tracker, a data driven analysis of nine key public services (from social care, to schools, to prisons).

Emily holds a PhD in History from the University of Warwick. Her thesis – ‘Senility before Alzheimer’ – explored old age and dementia in Victorian Britain. She began her career as a secondary school teacher in London.

Articles written by Emily

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A new study suggests that retirement and not ill-health is driving the loss of older workers from the labour market.
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Research from the IFS, funded by the Centre for Ageing Better, has found that employees over the age of 65 were 40% more likely to have been on furlough than those in their 40s.
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Even though older workers make up a third of the workforce they're still facing many difficulties in remaining or returning to the job market.

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