Employment, education, learning and training
Information and resources to support adults to access, maintain, and deal with issues in, employment, education, learning and training during the pandemic. Includes information on modern slavery.
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Employment opportunities
Information on work opportunities, employment support and self employment during the pandemic.
Translated guides to help people seeking asylum understand how and whether they can apply for permission to work while their claim is pending.
Article on how the addition of social care workers to the Health and Care visa and Shortage Occupation List will mean that people waiting for over a year on an asylum claim can apply for permission to work in these roles.
Healthcare training programme recruiting individuals who have lived experienced of being either homelessness, seeking asylum or have refugee status.
Workplace rights
Information on rights in the workplace and dealing with issues during the pandemic
Research exploring the experiences of migrant workers in low-paid and insecure work during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Guidance for parents during pregnancy and maternity leave regarding workplace rights and redundancy.
Visit the links to view the advice in your preferred language. Includes: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Ukrania.
Maternity Actions have published a FAQs resource on rights during pregnancy and maternity.
Guidance for employers on the documents required as evidence for entitlement to work in the UK.
In order to respond to Covid 19, the Government has implemented measures to contain the spread of the virus, including closing down some business premises and to support employers and workers.
Read more information about your right to work and applying for a National Insurance Number.
People in slavery are often forced to live and work in squalid, overcrowded conditions putting them at a high risk of contracting and transmitting coronavirus.
Care Provider Alliance published a guidance on EU Settlement Scheme for adults social care providers.
A detailed translated leaflet covering many aspects of workers rights in the UK. Offers signposting to support
Access to adult education (FE and HE)
Information on education access during the pandemic.
Information about the way the Covid-19 outbreak is affecting the international work of UK universities and students.
Online training
Access to online learning opportunities during the pandemic