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Centre for Ageing Better supports pensioner poverty recommendations

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24 Jul 2025
2 min read
The Work and Pensions Committee report on Pensioner Poverty: challenges and mitigations, highlights many of the challenges that older people are experiencing. The Centre for Ageing Better endorses the Committee’s recommendations for future action.
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Helping older workers access employment

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21 Jul 2025
4 min read
A recent employability support initiative in Middlesbrough focused on the needs of jobseekers over the age of 50.
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How to use apprenticeships to unlock the potential of older workers

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26 Jun 2025
This case study from ISS, a leading workplace experience and facility management company, highlights how strategic use of apprenticeships can improve career development opportunities for older workers, while simultaneously strengthening business performance and inclusivity.
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How Ageing Better is helping over 50s along the path to employment

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Elaine Smith
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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How will today’s spending announcement impact the country’s 50+ population?

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11 Jun 2025
4 min read
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled the contents of the UK's first multi-year spending review since 2021.
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Tourism, hospitality, leisure and retail employers tell us the benefits of being part of the Age-friendly Employer Pledge

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Tracy Riddell
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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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
3 min read
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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Steps to Your Goal Evaluation

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Centre for Ageing Better
16 May 2025
Our in-house evaluation of the Steps to Your Goal employment support pilot. The pilot, developed by Centre for Ageing Better following an extensive co-design process and delivered by Triage and HealthFind, supported people over 50 in Middlesbrough looking to find work. 
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Recruiting older workers can fill gaps in the labour market 

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Tracy Riddell
23 Apr 2025
The hospitality, travel and leisure sectors offer positive employment opportunities for workers over 50, but those sectors are not always capitalising on this pool of older talent.
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Latest Labour Market stats show government needs to show greater ambitions for older workers

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15 Apr 2025
6 min read
The Centre for Ageing Better is part of a group of organisations is calling on the government to be more proactive in getting more older people into work if it wants to meet its manifesto pledges around economic growth.
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