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Health and wellbeing at work: where we are and where we want to be
24 Mar 2023Zofia Bajorek reflects on the recent Health and Wellbeing at Work conference and considers where we currently are with issues around health and wellbeing at work and what we need to do to get to where we want to be.
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Gradual, then sudden: why employment has stalled and what the Budget should do
10 Mar 2023Ahead of next week's Budget, Tony Wilson details an action plan for government to tackle the underlying causes of economic inactivity - to help those who want to work to get back in, help people stay in work, and to make work better.
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Pay awards in 2023: the end of the going rate?
1 Mar 2023Duncan Brown reflects on the challenges of setting appropriate pay levels in 2023 and urges employers to move away from low pay models and 'going rates' and instead consider a broader and more thoughtful, tailored approach to pay setting.
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Sustaining practitioner learning in early years settings with speech and language therapist support
6 Feb 2023Olivia Garner, Alexandra Nancarrow and Anneka Dawson present findings from their recent evaluation of Phase 2 of the Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) projects, designed to help practitioners in Private, Voluntary and Independent (PVI) settings to develop their practice to support speech and language outcomes for 2- to 3-year-olds.
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Closing the gap: the role of government in enabling women to build better pensions
26 Jan 2023Abbie Winton, Claudia-Plowden Roberts and Jade Talbot set out the actions that government need to take, in order to close the gender pension gap and ensure that women are supported during their working lives.
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Bridging the Gap: Making young people a vital part of every workforce
16 Jan 2023Cristiana Orlando, Abbie Winton and Kate Alexander, examine employers’ perceptions and experiences of youth employment, how they compare to young people’s own experiences, and how this can inform policy and practice around good quality youth employment.
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Organisational diversity & inclusion strategies: reflections from a diversity & inclusion specialist
5 Jan 2023After a long career spent helping organisations achieve the goals set out in their diversity and inclusion strategies, IES Principal Associate Rob Barkworth turns his attention to questioning how and why the objectives they are aiming for, were chosen in the first place.
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Lessons for HR from the public sector pay disputes? ‘It’s good to talk’
19 Dec 2022Ahead of a week of continued industrial action across multiple sectors, Duncan Brown reflects on what these disputes teach us about reward and employment and what employers can learn from the UK's winter of discontent.
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Caught in a gap – the role of employers in enabling women to build better pensions
12 Dec 2022In light of recent IES research into the gender pensions gap, Abbie Winton, Claudia Plowden Roberts and Jade Talbot consider what action can be taken by employers, to support the future savings capacity of women across different life stages.
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How do your line managers treat your (potential) neurodivergent staff?
7 Dec 2022Alison Carter reflects on her experience of helping a young person with dyslexia and autism look for casual work and considers what employers can do to create an environment that is more inclusive and supportive of neurodiversity.