Social value is the key to covid recovery

By Su Pickerill

Creating opportunities for people facing barriers in life has never been more important, says Wates’ Su Pickerill

The pandemic has made the world a more difficult place to live in. We’re unable to see our friends and family, many have faced furlough or redundancy and our health and wellbeing is being tested on a global scale.

The impact has been particularly severe on those people on margins of society. According to the ONS, half a million more people in the UK are out of work since the pandemic and about 60% of those are young people under 25.

This rise in unemployment places those confronted with additional barriers even further back in the queue. Care leavers, ex-offenders, ex-services, people dealing with homelessness or living with disability - those without a network, without a guiding hand and without the bank of mum and dad - are now facing fewer routes to employment and greater obstruction to social mobility.

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