In LEI's Annual Lecture, Prof. Andy Haldane argued that the current skills policy falls short, and that future learning systems need to be far more flexible, accessible and responsive to individual needs.

Rewiring education and skills requires the national and local parts of the system to make decisions together about provision, progression and support.

The Union Learning Fund is a welcome return. The next task is to make that invitation available across the workforce, including to those who have no union learning representative to ask.