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Provisional 2025 and revised 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) estimates for Great Britain, giving employee and employment counts by industry and detailed local geography for planning and labour analysis.
Major hospitality employers partnering with the Government and UKHospitality will provide paid jobs, work experience and training to 100,000 18–24 year‑olds who are not in education, employment or training, the Department for Work and Pensions says.
Government consultation seeks views on reforming employment status to clarify who is an employee, boost compliance with employment rights and strengthen protections for the self‑employed, aiming to make work pay across the labour market.
New measures announced to tackle bogus self‑employment aim to benefit over 900,000 people by closing loopholes that misclassify workers, increasing employment protections and enforcement against firms using false self‑employment models.
Reports longitudinal results from businesses reinterviewed in 2022–25, analysing changes in turnover, staffing, investment, and business conditions across the survey panel to identify trends over four years.
Pat McFadden’s claim that the current employment rate is higher than in “every year but one” under the Conservatives is incorrect, according to analysis of ONS data by Full Fact which disputes that specific comparative assertion.
Summarises 2025 survey findings for small and medium-sized enterprises with employees, detailing performance indicators such as employment numbers, turnover, recruitment difficulties and barriers to growth.
UKHSA data indicate almost half of people with flu-like symptoms miss work or school, and the agency reiterates that flu vaccination remains the best defence against such absenteeism.
Analysis claims only one in five of the additional payroll jobs created in Britain since 2014 went to British nationals, a finding presented as a notable change in the nationality composition of job gains.
Presents 2025 findings on sole traders and other businesses with no employees, covering performance measures such as turnover, business survival, trading status and challenges faced by micro-businesses operating alone.
Explores how low rates of job‑to‑job moves among economically insecure workers are suppressing UK labour market dynamism and, in turn, holding back productivity growth.
A Centre for Social Justice analysis finds a worker on the National Living Wage must work more than 50 hours a week—around six days—to take home the equivalent of combined means‑tested benefits, highlighting weak pay incentives.
Two Defence Technical Excellence Colleges will be established in Scotland after the Scottish Government confirmed it will match the UK Government’s £10 million contribution, a move welcomed by Scotland Office minister Douglas Alexander to boost defence skills.
Reflects on graduate underemployment as a temporary detour rather than a terminal outcome, drawing on the author’s NHS Alliance and University of Bath experience to discuss skills, career pathways and how graduates can recover professional trajectories.
Monthly NHS Talking Therapies statistics for August 2026, including data on employment advisers and a report on the IAPT Employment Advisors Pilot evaluating support for return-to-work outcomes.
Reference tables supply the underlying estimates for the Component approach to UK labour productivity from 1997 to 2024, showing productivity in chained volume measures and current prices, with labour inputs (jobs, workers, total hours) and contribution breakdowns consistent with Blue Book 2026 QNA.
A £370 million deal sees Kuwait purchase UK-made AI-enabled air defence systems, supporting 100 new UK jobs and boosting domestic skills as systems are manufactured by a UK-based defence firm.
HMRC reports over 600,000 families are using Tax-Free Childcare and urges more working families to sign up to reduce childcare costs via the government scheme providing government top-ups on eligible childcare spending.
The 2026 Skills England annual report identifies key challenges across the skills system and publishes Sectoral Skills Needs Assessments outlining demand and supply gaps in priority sectors to inform policy and workforce planning.
New DWP rules mean more than 325,000 residents in supported housing and temporary accommodation will keep more of what they earn when they start work or increase hours, changing how income interacts with housing-related benefits.
Paper investigates how individuals sort into entrepreneurial teams, studying formation processes and implications for team performance and start‑up outcomes; findings intend to shed light on team composition effects in entrepreneurship.
Jobcentres across England now offer free careers advice alongside existing employment support, aiming to help people find work, change careers, progress in roles or build new skills through on-site career guidance services.
A new DWP-funded Youth Hub has opened in Exeter to expand employment support for young people locally, offering services designed to help them progress towards work and training opportunities.
Independent Expert Academic Panel on Neurodiversity, chaired by Professor Amanda Kirby, publishes final recommendations aimed at improving workplace inclusion for neurodivergent people, setting out policies and practice changes for employers and government to adopt.
The Civil Nuclear Constabulary is partnering with the Career Transition Partnership and British Forces Resettlement Service to support service leavers, veterans and their families in exploring careers in armed policing and specialist roles.
Businesses, charities and innovators can bid for a share of a £60 million fund aimed at helping disabled people and those with health conditions enter work, funding new programmes to support millions currently out of work for health reasons.
An independent report concludes neurodivergent people can thrive at work when provided tailored employment support, and backs government action to expand personalised workplace adjustments and support services to improve recruitment and retention.
The Institute for Government praises Andy Burnham’s proposals for social care workers and reform but warns that timely implementation is crucial for the plans to succeed.
ONS counted 981,000 16–24-year-old NEETs in April–June 2026, with 393,000 actively unemployed. The number has risen for four years and only Romania now has a higher NEET rate in the EU, the paper argues for urgent labour-market reform.
Research mapping UK cyber security skills needs and job vacancies in 2026, detailing employer demand and gaps across roles and regions to inform skills policy, recruitment and training provision.