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As National Employability Week 2025 starts, Dan Mason and Jade Talbot explore the long term impact of the recently announced expansion of free school meal provision for primary-age children on their future employment prospects.

In the second blog of this series on neurodiversity in the workplace, Claudia Plowden Roberts and Joseph Cook discuss the benefits of neuroinclusion to organisations, and explore how employers can implement inclusion most successfully including high-profile business examples.

Following the European HR Directors’ Circle annual Forum, and in the light of the current political stagnation on previously agreed net zero targets, Duncan Brown explores the role of HR in the context of the critical relationship between climate risk and business risk.

Following the recent IES report on workforce inequalities in health and adult social care, Dr Meenakshi Krishnan and Claudia Plowden Roberts focus on the high prevalence of intersectional discrimination in the research findings, and how implementing Section 14 of the Equality Act could help to address this.

To mark National Employability Day, Rosie Gloster and Jonny Buzzeo consider the Government's 'Get Britian Working' plans, and detail the key lessons from previous efforts to improve employment rates which can be used most effectively to inform this latest initiative.

Nick Litsardopoulos examines the dual impact of the increases in UK National Insurance Contribution (NIC) and the National Minimum Wage on the UK job market, and the possible consequences for both those in and out of employment.

Joseph Cook and Cristiana Orlando reflect on just-published IES research for the Youth Futures Foundation, considering the ongoing business advantages for UK organisations investing in EDI initiatives and the drivers and enablers that motivate employers to sustain such investments.

Naomi Clayton, Chief Executive at the Institute for Employment Studies comments on today's Spending Review announcements