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Drawing on recent IES research, Stephen Bevan's blog considers the persistent wage penalty for working age women living with obesity and calls for society as a whole to permanently challenge the deeply embedded discrimination against people, especially women, living with obesity.

With both the current government and Labour opposition planning to expand childcare in England, IES researchers detail an assessment of where the childcare sector is today to inform what needs to change to meet the planned expansion.

Stephen Bevan reflects on the main causes of health-related job loss among older workers in the UK, highlighting what can be done by employers to predict and mitigate the risk of the problem getting worse.

Today’s figures have perhaps the first signs that higher interest rates may be starting to put the brakes on the economy, with unemployment ticking up to 4%.

IES has supported the development of a new Youth Employment Toolkit from Youth Futures Foundation. Becci Newton explains how the resource is designed to move the dial from identifying the risks facing marginalised young people to supporting them to see better outcomes.

Youth Futures Foundation (YFF) commissioned IES and the Centre for Evidence and Implementation to lead evidence synthesis to inform the development of a Youth Employment Toolkit of effective practices for improving employment outcomes amongst young people, particularly those who face marginalisation in the labour market.

Findings from the just-released Parental Rights Survey indicate that take-up of shared parental leave entitlement has been low. Rosie Gloster highlights challenges including awareness and affordability when considering why shared parental leave has not been the answer to more equal parenting for most families.

With the latest Parental Rights Survey indicating that two in five new fathers did not access paid parental leave, Rosie Gloster considers how more new fathers can be supported to take paternity leave.