News & Press

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Sally Wilson highlights the challenge of SMEs sufficiently supporting the mental health of their staff and considers that instead of waiting for government initiatives to reach them, business owners should consider low-cost, high-quality options that improve the management and prevention of health issues at work.

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Abbie Winton and Astrid Allen consider the role that flexible working could play in supporting men living more balanced lives, and how organisations should consider enabling more men to work flexibly to support improved wellbeing.

Reflecting on the recent IES Annual Conference, Dan Lucy highlights the need for clearly articulated principles, evidence-based research and an informed strategy to effectively build a better and fairer future of work.

With allegations of workplace bullying once again hitting the headlines, Stephen Bevan details why it is always best to call out this kind of behaviour with senior colleagues, no matter what short term discomfort may result.

Becci Newton celebrates the publication of the Health-led Employment Trials Evaluation and details a selection of key achievements from leading one of the largest trials to date of individual placement and support (IPS).

With proposed reforms to Early Years childcare and an extension of free childcare hours scheduled for 2024, Anneka Dawson and Alexandra Nancarrow detail several trials and evaluation programmes that IES is running in Early Years and call for a focus on high quality early education not just childcare.

In advance of our upcoming IES annual conference on fairness at work, Chair Dan Lucy considers the situation in which we find ourselves and why it is critical that we collectively find ways to shape a better and fairer future of work.

With the long-standing issue of employers failing to sufficiently invest in training the workforce, Becci Newton calls for new support to improve navigation of a system weighed down by a plethora of funding schemes and training initiatives as well as provision suitable for adult re/upskilling.