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In summary, our view is that there is a lot to welcome in the new plan, with around £2.6 billion of investment in employment and related support over the next five years, particularly focused on supporting the long-term unemployed and people with significant health conditions.

Following her recent presentation on the Future of Coaching, Alison Carter reflects on the rapid rise in workplace coaching, and how employers can ensure it is both effective and appropriate to their specific workplace and employees.

Today’s announcement of significant investment in employment support is welcome news, but it risks being drowned out by divisive rhetoric around ‘coasters’ who want to ‘take taxpayers for a ride’.

Jonathan Buzzeo looks at gendered differences in mental health and calls for employers to use a nuanced understanding of how mental health conditions and coping strategies might manifest for different employees within the workplace.

The labour market is continuing to cool, with vacancies now down by a quarter of a million over the last year and by sixty thousand in the most recent quarter

Green jobs are back in the spotlight, but how many green jobs actually are there and how can we support their growth? asks Ben Brindle, former Research Economist (Fellow) at IES.

We are keen to hear from employers about what they need and want from the public employment service to inform our research for The Commission on the Future of Employment Support.

In the light of Claudia Goldin's recent Nobel Prize for her work on advancing the understanding of women's labour-market outcomes, Meenakshi Krishnan explores the barriers to equal pay between genders, including caring responsibilities and outdated employer perceptions and what needs to happen for this persistent imbalance to be addressed.