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How Ageing Better is helping over 50s along the path to employment

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20 Jun 2025
4 min read

Today is Employability Day 2025, an opportunity to highlight great work in the employment support sector that is improving access to work.

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Inspiring and emotive: AWL Day sweeps across the nation

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12 Jun 2025

Thousands of people across the country were moved to take actions big and small to celebrate ageing and challenge ageism on Age Without Limits Day.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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How will today’s spending announcement impact the country’s 50+ population?

News
11 Jun 2025

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled the contents of the UK's first multi-year spending review since 2021.

  • Age-friendly Movement
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  • Homes
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Tourism, hospitality, leisure and retail employers tell us the benefits of being part of the Age-friendly Employer Pledge

Blog
23 May 2025

Ageing Better has hit another major landmark with the 500th employer committing to its Age-friendly Employer Pledge, says our Senior Programme Manager for Age-friendly Employment, Tracy Riddell.

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Improving the quality of homes – finding shared goals and a common drive across the county

Blog
23 May 2025

The Good Home Network brings together local authorities to make connections, share challenges and drive change to improve the quality of homes. The Network is delighted be able to support members to visit other member areas to learn from each other.

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Building Age-friendly Communities in a rural context

Blog
22 May 2025

Older people living in rural and coastal areas can face challenges in staying connected, accessing health and care services, and accessing the right housing, writes our Learning Officer for the UK Network of Age-friendly Communities, Pippa Mannerings.

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Redrawing eligibility rules for Winter Fuel Payments would be welcome first step in tackling scourge of cold homes

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21 May 2025

Ageing Better has welcomed the Prime Minister’s decision to look again at the eligibility threshold for Winter Fuel Payments to allow more pensioners to qualify for support.

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Glimmer of hope for older people’s commissioner role in England after latest government announcement

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16 May 2025

The Women and Equalities Committee recommended the government consider replicating the framework in Wales for a Commissioner for Older People in a report published earlier this year.

  • Age-friendly Movement

Latest research from others

The future of public pension provision in the UK: challenges and trade-offs
Cribb, J., et al., Oxford Journal of Economic Policy
This report examines the future of UK public pension provision and the challenges it poses for policy making.
Older people’s social work safe staffing supply and workforce demands analysis: A case study from Northern Ireland
McFadden, P. et al., The British Journal of Social Work
This study examines staffing in older people’s social work community teams in Northern Ireland.
On the Edge: The impact of financial pressures on older Londoners
Age UK
This report outlines older Londoners’ experience of living on a low income.

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