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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.

Ahead of his presentation at the IES Annual Conference, Duncan Brown considers the latest developments in pay transparency amidst recent legislative changes to address pay inequality.

Zofia 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.

Yesterday’s Budget leaves three significant challenges – around the scale, breadth and pace of reform; and unanswered questions particularly around benefit conditionality and sanctions.

There are still nearly half a million fewer people in work than before the Covid-19 pandemic, driven by more people out of work due to long-term health conditions and more older people out of work.

Ahead 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.