There are roughly 1m people between age 50 and state pension age who say they want or need to keep working but are facing a range of obstacles, says Catherine Foot

As the UK awaits the findings of the Keep Britain Working Review which is looking to address economic inactivity due to ill-health and disability, helping more people remain in or return to work to enable our national economic growth should be prioritised.

While the Review’s focus is on health-related barriers, this is a timely opportunity for the conversation to go further.

There are roughly 1m people between age 50 and state pension age who say they want or need to keep working but are facing a range of obstacles. Health is certainly one, but so are caring responsibilities, age discrimination, a lack of flexible roles and ineffective recruitment practices.

The economic and demographic case

Supporting people in their 50s and 60s to find and stay in decent work needs to become an explicit and critical part of how we ensure both financial resilience for individuals, and economic growth for the UK.

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