Access to better quality work is key to promoting prosperity, improving wellbeing and solving deep-rooted place-based inequalities across the UK.

Through 2023, Matt Warman MP, new co-chair of the APPG into the Future of Work, and former lead for the Government’s Future of Work Review, will be completing a review with his co-chair Lord Jim Knight and with support from IFOW as strategic research partner.

This event will be focused on people and place and explore access to good work across the country in this context. In doing so, we will benefit from IFOW's Good Work Monitor and the forthcoming Pissarides Review

During the event, expert speakers will explore some of the following questions:

How are patterns in access to good work across the country changing?
How can good work promote wellbeing and prosperity for people and places across the country?
Which policy and other levers are available to create and sustain good work across the country?
How could national and local Future of Work strategies be developed implemented?

Co-chairs: Matt Warman MP, Jim Knight, Lord Knight of Weymouth

Introduction to the event: Anna Thomas, Director of IFOW

Speakers:

Guy Opperman MP, Minister of State for Employment

Professor Philip McCann, Chair of Urban and Regional Economics, Alliance Manchester Business School

Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Laureate, Regius Professor of Economics, LSE and lead of the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing

APPG on the Future of Work - 'People and Place'