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Danni-May Higlett, Cristiana Orlando and Astrid Allen reflect on their recent research for the Local Government Association (LGA) that highlights the need for local government and local employers to support good work initiatives.

Today’s figures should be sounding alarm bells in government, with the number of people out of work due to long-term ill health now rising faster than at any point in at least three decades.

Daniel Muir, Astrid Allen and Rosie Gloster highlight the opportunity that remote working presents to distribute wealth more evenly across the UK, and set out how government and employers can capitalise on this trend to attract and retain a diverse and talented workforce.

Dan Lucy considers five key planning priorities that could help HR to prepare for the looming economic downturn.

With many businesses blaming staff shortages on Brexit and the pandemic, Duncan Brown argues that with better workforce planning, and investment in staff pay and skills, much of the disruption we're experiencing to services could have been avoided.

With the Kickstart initiative now closed, Rosie Gloster and Olivia Garner assess whether employers new to supporting young people might now consider whether traineeships are a desirable alternative to generate the skills and talent pipeline they need.

With the proposal to cut up to £8.8bn a year through the introduction of regional pay boards and wage variation for public sector workers now hastily retracted, Stephen Bevan and Tony Wilson look at this often-mooted idea and reflect on why it has never delivered.

Duncan Brown considers the rise of bonuses and cost of living payments and questions whether bonus payments to lower-paid staff is a step on the path to more permanent and higher investments in people and their productivity.