Read: Turning tech talent shortages into opportunities
We hear a lot about the skills gap. It’s a twenty-first century challenge and it’s ironic that it’s the tech sector where the situation is particularly acute.
Read: Purpose Coalition partners bag influential HR awards
Purpose Business Coalition partners were amongst those included on this year’s prestigious HR Most Influential list which recognises the people whose ideas and actions have most shaped HR practices in the UK and globally in 2023
Read: Firms must deliver on their social contract
While we see daily reports of the challenges that many people are continuing to face as they struggle with the cost of living, a slew of headlines is fast approaching on the huge profits that many of the UK’s biggest businesses are set about to announce.
Read: Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP visits SMS offices in Doncaster to highlight social impact of the UK energy sector
The Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net-Zero made the visit to Doncaster – where low-carbon solutions company SMS employ 100 people – as part of an awareness event organised by The Purpose Coalition
Read: Young people call for abolition of the apprenticeship rate
New research from Co-op in partnership with VotesforSchools reveals over half (59%) of young people aged 7-16 years old believe apprentices should be paid the national living wage as cost of living drives interest in apprenticeships
Read: Survey on employer attitudes to tracking socio-economic diversity
What gets measured gets done. So if we want opportunities to be open irrespective of background, then tracking socio-economic diversity of employees matters for all employers.
Read: Retrofit skills gap threatens UK’s net-zero target
Today Reed in Partnership has launched Reed Environment to address the UK’s net-zero skills shortage. It will create a newly trained green workforce to help the UK meet its net-zero targets and spread economic opportunity across the country.
Read: ‘Solidarity with Ukraine’: House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt MP and Leonardo UK CEO, Clive Higgins highlight the vital role of UK defence sector in supporting geopolitical security
Leaders from the defence, manufacturing and procurement sector gathered in Parliament to discuss and promote how their sectors are upholding UK values in a transformed geopolitical landscape.
Read: Powerful Futures - UK Power Networks and Essex County Council collaborate to support more women into engineering
Two key Purpose Coalition members - UK Power Networks and Essex County Council - are continuing their fantastic partnership work offering support and opportunity to the people of Essex that need it the most.
Read: Women’s health in the workplace
It may be uncomfortable listening for some, but it’s high time that menopause – and women’s health more widely, including menstruation, fertility problems, pregnancy, miscarriage and more – move up the workplace agenda. The time for squeamishness is long gone.
Read: Driving access to opportunity: Chair of the Purpose Coalition, Justine Greening, talks to Sean Haley, CEO of Sodexo UK & Ireland
Justine Greening interviews Sean Haley, CEO of Sodexo UK & Ireland.
Read: Changing the conversation for women in the workplace
Leading businesses and Purpose Coalition partners were joined by Minister for Social Mobility, Youth and Progression, Mims Davies MP, at a Women in the Workplace roundtable, sponsored by Teleperformance.
Read: Deep dive into the labour market to fix skills shortage
New research published this week has thrown the impact of the skills shortage in the UK into sharp relief.
Read: Building solutions for social change: Tarmac launches its Levelling Up Impact Report
Tarmac, the UK's leading sustainable construction materials and solutions business, launched its Levelling Up Impact Report today, in partnership with the Purpose Coalition. The report was launched at Next Gen 2030+, an event hosted by Tarmac to discuss business solutions to climate change in the construction industry.
Read: Targets hit the mark for boardroom representation
At a time when the UK is having to take a long hard look at how to get its economy back on track, and how it does business, one of the key factors will be its workforce. Does it include all the talent that is available in every part of the country? Does it reflect the communities it is operating in?
Read: Place-based solutions will help end homelessness
There are many complex reasons for people becoming homeless. A lack of affordable housing, poverty, unemployment or a life event such as divorce or mental health issues can all result in someone losing their home.
The Sunday Take: Labour is setting the agenda on mortgages
The consequences of another interest rate rise are bleak. On Thursday, new analysis from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research found that by the end of 2023, more than a million households will run out of savings because of higher mortgage repayments, taking the proportion of insolvent households to nearly 30%, with the largest impact in Wales and the North East.
Read: Former Transport Secretary Rt Hon Justine Greening joins Southeastern Railway as we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day
On International Women in Engineering Day 2023 Southeastern, the railway company serving Kent Sussex and Southeast London has honoured engineering trailblazer Kent-born Verena Holmes
Read: Family friendly policies are business friendly policies too
Purpose Coalition partner, Amazon, has announced that it is set to offer parents, grandparents and guardians working in its UK warehouses the option to work during term-time only.
Read: Sodexo showcases positive social impact in new report
Sodexo has today published its 2023 Social Impact Report, which highlights progress and outcomes delivered against the commitments laid out in its Social Impact Pledge.