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Making the most of furlough
With 850,000 jobs still at-risk by the end of summer, furlough can play a transformational role in training and education beyond September

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Alex Chapman, Chaitanya Kumar, Alfie Stirling
05 April 2021

In March 2021 the job retention scheme (JRS) was extended for the third time, and is now scheduled to end on 30 September 2021. This five-month extension, announced by chancellor Rishi Sunak, was vital and should have been confirmed far earlier. Using Office for National Statistics (ONS) data from the

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Some jobs won’t come back
Over the last year, half a million people have lost jobs that will never return. Rishi Sunak has a chance to support them

By
Alex Chapman, Chaitanya Kumar, Alfie Stirling
01 March 2021

Ahead of the spring budget on Wednesday, the OBR and Bank of England have predicted that unemployment could rise to between 7.5% and 7.7% in Q2 2021. This means that, by May around an extra 1.2 million people could have become unemployed since last March. This figure, however, assumes that the coronavirus job retention