News & Press

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).

Today’s figures continue the trend of gradual improvement that we’ve seen over the last couple of months. But progress in the labour market is painfully slow.

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.