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Winning the generation game: improving opportunities for people aged 50-65 in work and community activity
— a Performance and Innovation Unit Report - April 2000 | | Corporate Author | Performance and Innovation Unit, Cabinet Office |
| Publisher | The Stationery Office, London, April 2000 |
| Pages | 117 pp |
| Source | The Stationery Office, PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN. |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Retirement ; Retirement age ; Early retirement ; Employment ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | One third of people in the UK aged between 50 and State Pension Age - 2.8 million people - do not work, and it is estimated that probably less than a third of the fall in older people's employment has been voluntary. This report sets out a range of measures which have been agreed by the Government to help reverse this trend. The main conclusions and recommendations to the Government are: develop a strategy for setting out the Government's vision of the role and value of older people in society; introduce age discrimination legislation if the current Code of Practice proves unsuccessful; increase contact with and job search help for people on sickness and disability benefits; provide careers information and advice for older displaced workers; raise the minimum age at which an immediate pension is available; improve the transparency of occupational pensions by showing the cost of early retirement in company accounts; review the Civil Service retirement age; promote the advantages of diversity and flexibility in working practices; introduce a National Volunteering Scheme; and introduce pilots to explore new ways of recognising and rewarding volunteering. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000511407 B |
| Classmark | GC: GHH: G3: G5A: G5M: WJ: TOB: 6OA |
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