Andy Briggs is the UK Government’s Business Champion for the Ageing Society and Older Workers, alongside being Group CEO at Phoenix Group.

His three priority areas in his UK Government role are:

• Spearheading work to promote the benefits of older workers and multigenerational workforces to employers across England – influencing employers both strategically and in terms of practical advice.
• Encouraging Government policies and adaptation of ‘lifelong learning’ as necessary to enable people at all ages and in all areas of social mobility to progress continually through their working lives.
• Developing and supporting strategic approaches to the infrastructure and societal changes needed as a consequence of increased longevity.

A key component for delivering this activity is a roundtable of employment organisations that the Minister for Employment and Andy Briggs Co-Chair.

Members of the roundtable include representatives from a range of organisations with wide reach and influence, such as: the CBI (Confederation of British Industry); CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development); the British Chamber of Commerce; the Federation of Small Businesses; the Recruitment and Employment Confederation; UK Hospitality; Institute of Directors, Make UK; and Business in the Community.

50+ Labour Market Data Review: improving data to better understand today’s workforce

The independent report from the Minister for Employment’s Roundtable of employer organisations seeks to provide an overview of data available to understand the 50+ Labour Market, alongside analysis of how the data is collected, visualised, and tracked.

The report offers recommendations as to how to improve this data, outlining why this is important, and what data action should be taken by the public and private sector.

There are two aims of the report:

1. A review of the existing publicly available evidence from a range of sources – analysing the evidence to form views on what we have learnt from the data, and what we have learnt about the data.
2. Action that should be taken by government and employers to improve the data / to act on the data – how the publicly available information can be improved to encourage action, and what action employers can take.

As always we are grateful for the support of roundtable members in putting this report together.

For more information please contact our media team.

Download the report