IES Reflects

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Meenakshi KrishnanClaudia Plowden RobertsWhy it is time to implement Section 14 of the Equality Act

30th June 2025

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.

Claudia Plowden RobertsJoseph CookThe business case for neuroinclusion 

02 July 2025

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.

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