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Meanwhile, fewer than one in 20 of participants in the government’s “skills bootcamps” – employer-led short courses aimed at equipping jobseekers for the opportunities in their area – are aged over 55.

Earlier this month, Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, championed the idea of over-50s delivering takeaways, and doing other jobs more readily associated with younger workers.

Crucially, they should extend beyond low-wage private sector vacancies to labour shortages in health, education and social care – where recruitment and retention problems are acute and linked to low pay levels and workload pressures.

But research also revealed that a substantial number of those who gave up work during the pandemic were hard-up as a result, with reduced expenditure on food and lower wellbeing.

As well as queues for operations such as hip replacements, economic inactivity is linked to the rising toll of chronic mental and physical illness.

But the coexistence of high levels of economic inactivity with key worker shortages in vital areas such as teaching remains hugely problematic, and should be addressed by return-to-work policies.

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