People with caring responsibilities and disabilities must be properly understood if they are to access the lifelong loan entitlement, write Ed Reza Schwitzer and Patrick Thomson
In our last piece in FE Week we highlighted that the core challenge for the lifelong loan entitlement (LLE) is behavioural – to have impact, individuals, providers and employers must make different decisions to the ones they make currently.
We also looked at some of the particular challenges faced by those in mid to late career, recognising that four-fifths of the rise in economic inactivity since the pandemic has been among the over-50s.