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The Government is collaborating with Britain's largest employers - including Google, Sainsbury's, BP and British Airways - in a significant new initiative to maintain people's health, keep them in employment, and reduce benefit dependency. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a three-year collaboration with businesses and local leaders through its fresh 'Keep Britain Working' programme.

The scheme aims to address the growing wave of ill-health that has pushed hundreds of thousands from the workforce since the pandemic. This development comes after a sobering assessment by former John Lewis chief Sir Charlie Mayfield, who cautioned that Britain is "sliding into an avoidable crisis" as unprecedented numbers of working-age adults exit employment due to healt

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