Keeping Britain Working with Sir Charlie Mayfield, Lead Reviewer, Keep Britain Working Independent Review
This webinar will explore findings from the Keep Britain Working Review, and how cross-sector collaboration can uncover opportunities to tackle economic inactivity.
Following the Get Britain Working White Paper, the government has shown a commitment to building an inclusive, thriving labour market to kick-start growth, with the Keep Britain Working Review setting out the issues that need to be addressed to improve economic inactivity.
We are delighted to welcome Sir Charlie Mayfield, Lead Reviewer, Keep Britain Working Independent Review, to discuss next steps in breaking down barriers to opportunity and achieving an 80% employment rate.
By attending on the day, you will:
- Uncover the economic and social cost of economic activity
- Understand how working in partnership is vital to reversing the increase in economic inactivity linked to ill-health, and reducing barriers to employment faced by disabled people
- Explore examples of how employers can support and create opportunities for people with work limiting health conditions and disabled people
Speaker
Sir Charlie Mayfield is leading an independent review into how best to support and enable employers to promote healthy workplaces, support more people to stay in or return to work from periods of sickness absence, and to recruit and retain more disabled people and people with health conditions. Prior to this, he was appointed Chairman of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills in November 2010. In 2007, Charlie became the John Lewis Partnership’s fifth Chairman, 7 years after joining the Partnership in 2000 as Head of Business Development, responsible for business strategy and development for both John Lewis and Waitrose. Charlie joined the Board as Development Director in 2001 and was responsible for developing the Partnership’s online strategy. He became Managing Director of John Lewis in January 2005 prior to taking up his appointment as Chairman of the Partnership in March 2007.
Charlie began his career as an officer in the army. He joined SmithKline Beecham in 1992 and became Marketing Manager for the Lucozade brand before moving to McKinsey & Co in 1996, where he worked with consumer and retail organisations.
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