The current government focus on apprenticeships and traineeships has the potential to enhance single parents’ take-up and progression in work.
This is according to the March 2019 report (pdf) from Gingerbread on barriers that inhibit single parents from accessing and progressing in apprenticeships.
The impact of massive cuts in central government funding of local government since 2010 has been ‘destructive and debilitating’ for women. This is according to
‘It is clear that we need to think innovatively to reimagine work in a way that will enable us to react to a changed and
The Work and Pensions Committee published the government’s response (pdf) to its report on benefit sanctions, in February 2019. The government: accepts the recommendation to
Tell MAMA and GMB Yorkshire have launched a toolkit (pdf), released October 2018, to help people seek redress if they are targeted for hatred or
We recommend that the Government publish and maintain a definitive list of all organisations that fall within the scope of the Gender Pay Gap Regulations.
This is one of the recommendations from the Government on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee’s report on the Gender Pay gap (pdf), in January 2019.
‘The Brexit vote came in part as an outcome of the aforementioned inequalities’, says the December 2018 report (pdf) from the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) on Brexit and inequality.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have produced the Good work plan (pdf) in December 2018. This plan sets out the government’s vision for the future of the UK labour market.
The UK Statistics Authority published their recommendations on the content and conduct of the 2021 Census for England and Wales, as set out in the December 2018 white paper (pdf).
This includes the proposal that, for the first time, the census will be predominantly online.
There is strong evidence that a ‘No Deal’ or ‘Hard’ Brexit would be the most damaging for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, women and those on low incomes with few qualifications.
This is from the November 2018 briefing from Race on the Agenda (ROTA) which looks at the implications of Brexit on BAME communities.
