GGF Director Praful Nargund joins DWP as Skills Adviser
Good Growth Foundation Director, Praful Nargund, has been appointed as Skills Adviser to Secretary of State Pat McFadden at the Department for Work and Pensions. He will be working to tackle the NEET crisis, reform apprenticeships and ensure the skills system drives economic growth and opportunity across the country - alongside continuing to run GGF.
The Good Growth Foundation has consistently made the case that skills are central to Britain’s growth. In Mind the Growth Gap, we argued that skills and training are essential for people to see growth as working for them. In Take Back Control, we set out how the UK’s skills crisis is both an economic and political failure that undermines productivity as well as social cohesion and confidence in the Government’s ability to deliver.
Our research has explored reform of the Growth and Skills Levy, how training could be treated as a growth investment and why the Office for Budget Responsibility should better account for skills spending in its fiscal scoring.
The Direct Ministerial Appointment is a marker of GGF’s impact in just its first year. We have been banging the drum that if Britain is serious about delivering growth people can feel, skills reform has to sit at the heart of the agenda.
Congratulations to Praful on a well-deserved appointment at a crucial moment for the country’s growth debate.
“I’m delighted to be appointed Skills Adviser to the Secretary of State for DWP, Pat McFadden. Whether it’s supporting the nearly one million young people not in education, employment or training into work, or driving economic growth, skills reform is at the heart of making it happen.”
