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Government Missions

Deliver economic stability with tough spending rules
A new partnership with business to boost growth everywhere
A National Wealth Fund to invest in jobs
Planning reform to build 1.5 million new homes
Devolution of power across England
A New Deal for Working People

1) Kickstart economic growth

Set up Great British Energy to cut bills for good
Energy independence from dictators like Putin
650,000 new high-quality jobs
Warmer homes to slash fuel poverty
Water companies forced to clean up our rivers

Crack down on antisocial behaviour with more neighbourhood police
Tough new penalties for offenders
A plan to get knives off our streets
A specialist rape unit in every police force
A new network of Young Futures hubs

2) Make Britain a clean energy superpower

Recruit 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects
3,000 new primary school-based nurseries
Free breakfast clubs in every primary school
A modern curriculum so young people are ready for work and life
High-quality apprenticeships and specialist technical colleges

4) Break down barriers to opportunity

Cut NHS waiting times with 40,000 more appointments every week
Double the number of cancer scanners
A new Dentistry Rescue Plan
8,500 additional mental health staff
Return of the family doctor

5) Build an NHS fit for the future

3) Take back our streets

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Get Britain Working White Paper

Get Britain Working White Paper - GOV.UK

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Get Britain Working key headlines

Overall ambition to get to an 80% employment rate

The Government has launched a comprehensive plan to address unemployment and inactivity, with a focus on work, health and skills. Backed by £240m investment, key reforms include:

Job Centres: new Jobs and Careers Service to improve employment outcomes through digitalisation, personalised support, and local partnerships
Youth Guarantee: Ensuring every young person has access to education, training, or employment opportunities.
Tackling Health-Related Inactivity: via a more integrated approach involving prevention, empowerment, employer support, and benefits system reform.
Empowering Local Areas: Providing funding to Mayors and local authorities to develop tailored employment and health strategies.
Supporting Employers: review the role of employers as healthy and inclusive workplaces.

Key ‘trailblazer’ funded programmes have been announced supporting target areas with enhanced funding

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Work & Health Policy

Get Britain Working

3 - NEY

[ICB]

NENC

West Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

8 x Youth Guarantee Trailblazers

1 - NEY

[Combined Authority]

Tees Valley CA

8 x Economic Inactivity Trailblazers

Work Well NEY x 1- SY

CVD Workplace HC

YH x 6 NE x 3

Employment Advisors in Talking Therapies NEY

Individual Placement Support in Primary Care- NEY

Connect to Work

YH 4 x Accountable Bodies (CAs)

NE 2 x Accountable Bodies (CAs)

[Delivery via LAs]

Occupational Health Reform

Fitnote Reform

Employment Advisors in MSK Hubs

New policy

Previous policy already in place

Previous policy unknown

Previous policy amended / rebranded

Key:

+ 3 Health & Growth Accelerator sites

4 - NEY

[Combined Authority]

North East CA

South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

York North Yorkshire

Further Faster 20 – NHS FTs

YH x 5

NE x 2

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Economic Inactivity Trailblazer

DWP

NE Combined Authority

£10m

Locally determined

Health & Growth Accelerator

NHSE

NENC ICB

£18m

2025 / 2026

Those out of work or at risk of falling out of work due to ill health

Connect to Work

DWP

Combined Authorities – delivered by LAs

3 year programme

£TBC NE Combined Authority

£TBC TVCA

People with disabilities, health conditions and complex barriers

Youth Guarantee Trailblazer

DfE

TVCA

£5m

18-21yr olds most at risk of falling out of education or employment

Funded by:

Awarded to:

Targeting:

Investment into North East

Accelerator funding is NHSE ‘add on’ to economic inactivity trailblazers in 3 areas (across NEY)

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Economic Inactivity Trailblazer

DWP

WY CA - £10m

SY MCA - £10m

YNY MCA - £TBC

Those who are inactive due to ill health and help them return to work

Health & Growth Accelerator

NHSE

WY ICB – £11m

SY ICB - £8m

[2025 – 2026]

Those out of work or at risk of falling out of work due to ill health

Connect to Work

DWP

Combined Authorities – delivered by LAs

3 year programme

4 accountable bodies across Y&H

People with disabilities, health conditions and complex barriers

Funded by:

Awarded to:

Targeting:

Investment into Yorkshire & Humber

Accelerator funding is NHSE ‘add on’ to economic inactivity trailblazers in 3 areas (across NEY)

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Programme	Aim	Duration	Place	Lead	Alignment	Comments
Supported Employment Programme: ‘Connect to Work’	Dual-model high fidelity supported employment voluntary programme, delivered by clusters of Local Authorities. It will expand the use of the proven five stage Supported Employment model of ‘place, train and maintain’ to support to up to 100,000 participants per year once fully rolled out.	3 year programme	The supported employment programme will be delivered by 45 clusters of LAs across England funded by a grant from DWP Hull CC for ER and Hull West Yorkshire CA for Bradford, Leeds, Calderdale, Wakefield and Kirklees South Yorkshire MCA for Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham York & NY CA for York and North Yorkshire North East MCA for Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland Tees Valley CA for Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton	DWP	Will complement other existing provision including WorkWell, NHSE’s Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for People with Severe Mental Illness Programme and IPS for Drug and Alcohol Dependency programme and other	Replacement for Universal Support. locally led programmes. ICBs and LA have received a letter and factsheet. Connect to Work - GOV.UK
8 trailblazers targeting the economically inactive	Bring together health, employment, and skills services to improve the support available to those who are inactive due to ill health and help them return to work.	Not known	Awarded to CA areas: West Yorkshire CA South Yorkshire MCA North East CA	DWP	This will include NHS England Health and Growth Accelerators in all 3 NEY areas awarded to ICBs to develop evidence of the impact of targeted action on the top health conditions driving economic inactivity.	Confirmed areas nationally : West Yorkshire (+ accelerator) North East (+ accelerator) South Yorkshire (+ accelerator) York and North Yorkshire Greater Manchester 2 x London Wales
8 Youth Guarantee Trailblazers	Areas to test new ways of supporting young people into employment or training, by bringing together and enhancing existing programmes in partnership with local areas.	Not known	Awarded to CA areas: Tees Valley CA	DfE		Confirmed areas nationally: Liverpool City Region West Midlands Tees Valley East Midlands West of England Cambridgeshire Peterborough 2 x London

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Programme	Aim	Duration	Place	Lead	Alignment	Comments
Work Well Pilots	To provide a single, joined-up assessment of an individuals’ ability to work with their condition or disability, and identify workplace adjustments or support that would enable them to stay in or return to work sooner (such as flexible working or the use of adaptive technology).	October 2024 – March 2026	Routed through ICBs. South Yorkshire	DWP OHID	Bringing together NHS/ICBs, Local Authorities and other system partners, locally, in collaboration with Job Centers.	Most pilots went live 01 Oct 24 and are receiving participant referrals. Guidance available from the NST, RPA and OHID YH (as required)
Workplace CVD Health Checks Pilot	The pilot will gather evidence, through the delivery of health checks within workplaces across the Midlands, on the feasibility and impact of workplace cardiovascular disease checks. It will encourage employers to support people to stay well in work, by gathering and sharing learning on delivering health checks in the workplace.	End of March 2025	Grants awarded to LAs: Y&H: East Riding, North Yorkshire, Barnsley, Rotherham, Calderdale and Bradford NE: Northumberland, Durham and Stockton	OHID	Compliments the health and wellbeing of people in a workplace setting	Cumberland LA (in North Cumbria) also received funding
Further Faster 20	Targeted funding for NHS FTs to impact on waiting lists		Funding awarded to NHS FTs: Y&H: Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Ne: Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	NHSE	Funding awarded to areas that have the highest percentage of economic inactivity with long term illness; and areas of highest deprivation. These factors were cross referenced against relative size of trust wait lists.
Employment Advisors in Talking Therapies	A voluntary service that enables NHS Talking Therapy patients to access combined therapeutic treatment and employment support to help them return to or remain in work and improve their mental health. EAs are co-located with therapists in NHS settings thus providing holistic health and work support.	Not known	EAs in TT will have expanded from 40% of NHS Talking Therapies sites in 2022 to almost 99% of sites by March 2025. This expansion has involved the recruitment of over 700 additional employment advisers	DHSC	Links to overall whole systems approach to get those with a health condition or disability to start, stay or succeed in work	Need to locate the sites across NEY and what work is taking place
The Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care Programme (IPSPC)	IPSPC is a voluntary programme using a Supported Employment model (place, train and maintain), with referrals from primary healthcare professionals, aimed at supporting disabled people and those with health conditions. IPSPC provides support to people out of work and those needing support with their health issues to stay in work.	Not known	IPSPC services are being delivered across 42 upper tier local authorities in England, supporting up to 25,000 disabled people with health conditions to help them start and stay in work.	OHID DWP	Sits alongside ‘Connect to Work’	Need to locate the sites across NEY and what work is taking place

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Programme	Aim	Duration	Place	Lead	Alignment	Comments
Employment Advisors in MSK hubs	Policy programme delivered by last Government to EOI phase. Paused by present Government. No further details known	Not known	Not known	Not known	Not known
Occupational Health Reform	Policy programme planned by last Government. Paused by present Government. No further details known	Not known	Not known	Not known	Not known
Fit Note Reform	Policy programme planned by last Government. Paused by present Government. No further details known	Not known	Not known	Not known	Not known

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Work Well

WorkWell went live at the beginning of October.

It is a new work and health pilot and will support up to 56k disabled people and people with health conditions to get into work and get on in work.

Through WorkWell, participants will be able to build a personalised action plan to address their health-related barriers to work. Services will also act as a joined-up gateway into other work and health services locally.

WorkWell is testing a model of locally designed and led service provision. The NHS, local authorities, Jobcentre Plus and the voluntary sector are working together in 15 pilot areas, including North Central London and North-West London.

A core building block in making Employers have a key role to recruit, retain, and support people into and in work.

Important steppingstone and learning exercise towards a more localised model.

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Further Joint Work and Health Directorate Policies

Employment Advisors in NHS Talking Therapies

A voluntary service that enables NHS Talking Therapy patients to access combined therapeutic treatment and employment support to help them return to or remain in work and improve their mental health. EAs are co-located with therapists in NHS settings thus providing holistic health and work support. The principal role of the Employment Adviser is to provide information, advice and guidance to all Talking Therapy patients who choose to receive employment support. The EA will work to empower the patient to find, remain in or return to employment and offer impartial advice to employers where requested.

EAs in TT will have expanded from 40% of NHS Talking Therapies sites in 2022 to almost 99% of sites by March 2025. This expansion has involved the recruitment of over 700 additional employment advisers

The Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care Programme (IPSPC)

The Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care Programme (IPSPC) is a voluntary programme using a Supported Employment model (place, train and maintain), with referrals from primary healthcare professionals, aimed at supporting disabled people and those with health conditions. IPSPC provides support to people out of work and those needing support with their health issues to stay in work.

IPSPC services are being delivered across 42 upper tier local authorities in England and 2 Health Boards in Wales, supporting up to 25,000 disabled people with health conditions to help them start and stay in work

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