Nicola Ryan MCIPD, Director of Colleague Support at school wear provider One+All.  Despite the rising cost of living, one in five workers feel their employer is not doing enough to support their financial wellbeing – rising to almost one ...

Katie Jacobs, Senior Stakeholder Lead, CIPD Membership Department.  News of the UK’s cost of living crisis has dominated the headlines since the Chancellor’s Spring Statement last week, with multiple stories of families having to cho...

Mona Abou Hana, Chief People Officer for EMEA and the Middle East, PwC Middle East.   At PwC Middle East, we have a successful graduate programme in place that is now on its sixth intake. Each year, we bring in over 300 new graduates to giv...

Hasan Imam MCIPD, Head of Talent Development and Acquisition, Qatar Cool and Zulfikar Jiffry, Internal Communications Specialist, Qatar Cool.  Our internship program is aimed at students who have studied in Qatar and international universit...

Morgan Bestwick, Policy and Partnerships Officer (Work), Joseph Rowntree Foundation For too many people, jobs are not working. Work should offer a clear route out of poverty, yet the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)’s most recent UK Poverty rep...

Beth Wilson, Organisational Development Officer, Wirral Borough Council. At Wirral Borough Council, we strive to make a positive difference for all our residents and communities in Wirral, this is at the heart of what we do. Our employees lead t...

By Lutfur Ali, Senior Policy Advisor at the CIPD.  Nusrat Ghani said that in February 2020, a government whip told her "Muslimness was raised as an issue" when she was removed from her Ministerial job. She was told that her “Muslimness was...

Lutfur Ali, Senior Policy Advisor, CIPD. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are increasingly becoming a top priority for organisations. Whatever the stimulus or motivation there is now a growing recognition that EDI is not just simply the r...

Lutfur Ali, Senior Policy Advisor, CIPD. By looking at my seven-year-old you may not be able to tell, but his brain functions very differently. If you were to meet him, you’d probably notice that beyond his ‘normal’ looks he do...

Harry Clucas, Community and Mobilisation, Peabody. Our focus is to help young people find a career where they excel. We offer this through a range of mediums such as in-house kickstart placements, funding and training to...

Northumbrian Water Limited supplies 2.7 million customers in the North East with both water and sewerage services, trading as Northumbrian Water, and 1.8 million customers in the South East with water services, trading as Essex &a...

Alison Bell, People and Culture Director, MTR Elizabeth line. When the new Elizabeth line opens it will provide a fast, frequent service linking the east and west through the heart of London, improving customer journey times and increasing ...

Ceri Travers, Organisational Development & Early Careers Manager, William Hare in Bury, Greater Manchester. William Hare is a global leader in engineered solutions. It is crucial for us to attract and retain young talent as 48% of ...

Dr Tracey Leghorn, Chief HR and H&S Officer, SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK. For young people, summer should be a rite of passage marked by exams, graduation and perhaps travel, or a first real experience of the world of work. But just as th...

Richard Kirk, CEO, Workplus. Apprenticeships have been around for decades but perhaps have never before been so prevalent in our societal psyche. In Boris Johnson’s Skills Speech last year, the predominant theme was the...

Amy Taylor, chief people officer at PKF Francis Clark.  Training and development for aspiring accountants has come a long way since our founder Frank Clark was an articled clerk in Southern Rhodesia more than a century ago.Today the fi...

Carly Walker, Equalities Intern, South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE). South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE) has recently employed five Modern Apprentices on a two-year programme in five areas of the organisation:&nbsp...

Rebecca Scollan, HR Advisor, Devenish Nutrition. As an organisation we recognise and understand that to be a truly high performing organisation both now and into the future, we needed to develop an internal pipeline of talent, incorporating the ...

At Compass Group UK and Ireland we believe passionately that everyone must have the opportunity to develop and progress. While we are food and support services business – we describe ourselves as a “people” business first....

Author: Beth Whittaker, Chief Human Resources Officer, Veolia UK and Ireland.  Never before has the environment been such a hot topic. Driven by generation Z, the concern about the care of our planet's health is gaining traction in a bi...

Author: By Natasha Adams, Chief People Officer, Tesco.  Like the CIPD, at Tesco we believe in supporting young people to build meaningful futures. A whole generation is currently grappling with the disruption that COVID-19 has caused to edu...

Debbie Alder, the People, Capability and Place Group Director General, DWP. Movement to Work (MtW) began in 2013 when a group of UK companies set out to tackle youth unemployment by helping employers ...

Claire McCartney, Senior Resourcing and Inclusion Policy Adviser, CIPD.Polly Harrar, Founder, The Sharan Project, Lead Delivery Partner, EDAC. Last year, the CIPD and the Equality and Human Rights Commission(EHRC) launched comprehensive guidance...

Ben Willmott is CIPD’s Head of Public Policy. The unprecedented heatwave that at the time of writing is gripping parts of the US and Canada is a sharp reminder that the pandemic is not the only ...

Mona AbouHana, Chief People Officer for EMEA and the Middle East, PwC. The past 18 months have caused a massive shift in the way we work and live. We all were faced with new challenges and had to adapt to a different environment as we made ...