Your views

The London Recovery Board brings together leaders from City Hall, London Councils, business, the community and voluntary sectors, trade unions, academia, health and police services.

They are planning for London's long-term recovery from COVID-19 and with your help, have identified several missions that they want to solve to help make London a fairer, greener, more open and vibrant city than what it was before.
 
Age UK London - Community Conversations
The London Recovery Board are asking charities and community groups to take part in shaping the missions that will rebuild our city by hosting a community conversation. This survey is one way that Age UK London are hearing from older Londoners and sharing the views of older Londoners with the London Recovery Board. Discussion groups sessions are also being organised along with telephone conversations to capture the views of those unable to take part in online activities. 
 
This survey is on one of the Missions ('Good Work for All Londoners') but you may wish to complete the other surveys. There is a separate survey for each of the following Missions:
  • A green new deal
  • Digital access for all
  • 15 minute cities – the city on your doorstep
  • A strong civil society
  • A robust safety net
  • Better health and wellbeing for Londoners most affected by the pandemic
You can find the links to these other surveys by clicking here

Please do share the surveys with older Londoners that may be interested.

We are very grateful to our friends at the Greater London Forum for Older People for supporting these Community Conversations activities.
MISSION 1: GOOD WORK FOR ALL LONDONERS
For Mission 1 (Good work for all Londoners) the London Recovery Board has set out the following.

“No Londoner, particularly those disproportionately affected by the pandemic or Brexit, is left without access to education, training or a job opportunity.”

Background
Unemployment is rising steeply in London with 1.1m jobs at risk. London had 1.07 million furloughed employees and 433,000 on the self-employed equivalent, the highest number amongst all regions in the UK. Some groups of people are especially vulnerable, including young people, BAME, clinically vulnerable, women and the low paid and low skilled. For these groups, the risk is that prolonged unemployment could lead to long term implications for their future earnings, employment prospects, and health and wellbeing. Structural challenges in society predating the COVID-19 crisis remain and need to be addressed, including income inequality. For example, once housing costs have been accounted for, London’s income inequality is almost twice that of the rest of the UK.

We’ll need to work together so that:
• Short term - all Londoners can access the support they need to gain good jobs
• Medium term - rising levels of unemployment are reversed over the next two years
• Long term - more working families are lifted out of poverty; the employment gap for vulnerable groups of people is reduced; and there are sufficient childcare places to support women in work

Areas of focus might include:
• Skills and training to support Londoners into new jobs, such as industry training and lifelong learning opportunities
• High quality advice and support to get Londoners into work, such as support for newly unemployed adults
• Supporting living wage jobs and progression in employment

For consideration         
What can City Hall, employers or other organisations and communities do to help
people back into work? For example:
• Offer more apprenticeships, improve career offer
• Increase joint working between Job Centre Plus and local services
• Broaden the Adult Education Budget to widen access and eligibility, offer pre-employment training, support lifelong learning etc
• Actions to reduce the employment gap for vulnerable groups including women, BAME, disabled people.

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* 1. Thinking about Mission 1 ('Good work for all Londoners) what do you think of this Mission?

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* 2. Thinking about this Mission ('Good work for all Londoners') and how it affects older Londoners is there anything critical that you think is missing (Answers are limited to 300 words).

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* 3. What does the Mission ('Good work for all Londoners') mean to you personally and older Londoners you know? (Answers are limited to 300 words)

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* 4. How concerned are you by the issues captured by the Mission ('Good work for all Londoners')?

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* 5. Thinking about this Mission, what actions or interventions would have the most impact? (Please select your top 3 actions)

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* 6. What one thing would demonstrate most to you that this Mission has been successful? (Answers are limited to 300 words).

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* 7. What is your age group?

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* 8. Do you consider yourself  to be disabled?

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* 9. Ethnic group – which best describes you? (optional)

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