The UK population is aging. By 2030 half of all adults in the UK will be over 50. A third of the UK workforce is already this age. At the same time there is also a shortfall of young people entering employment.

Leading broadcaster, Channel 4, today launched a new report with the Purpose Coalition which assesses its social impact and explores how it can go even further in making a significant contribution to social mobility.

In a recent visit Rt. Hon Justine Greening was hosted by Sodexo UK&I Chief Executive Officer, Sean Haley, at Northumbria University.

Royal Mail has launched Future Delivered, the company’s most significant employment programme to tackle youth unemployment across the UK. Royal Mail is driving the company’s largest growth in entry level opportunities, aiming to be an employer of choice for the next generation.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt, has today met with Clive Higgins of Leonardo UK - a leading Purpose Coalition Member - alongside former Education Secretary Rt Hon Justine Greening, and former Skills Minister Rt Hon Anne Milton to discuss and explore reform to the apprenticeship levy.

A new project that will explore how social mobility in the legal profession can be improved across the country, with a focus on regional firms and the key role they play, was launched today by Chair of the Purpose Coalition and former Education Secretary, Rt Hon Justine Greening.

If you are born in a position of disadvantage, it will be harder now than at any point over the last half century to move up the social ladder.

Engineers are the world’s problem solvers. You can see their legacy everywhere – from iconic structures like the pyramids or aqueducts to technological wonders we encounter every day, like the light bulb or telephone.

Chair of the Purpose Coalition, Rt Hon Justine Greening, and a number of Purpose Universities Coalition Vice-Chancellors have this week written to the Prime Minister regarding his recent announcement about a crackdown on low-value degrees.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Justine Greening interviews Sean Haley, CEO of Sodexo UK & Ireland.