Addressing workforce issues is vital to the digitisation of all public services

While many companies may have paid lip service to the issue of racism in 2020, the unconscious, and sometimes explicit, bias of racism runs deep.

When the anti-avoidance tax legislative reform – IR35 - rolls out to the private sector in April, employers of many contractors could be in a very difficult position.

No organisation operates in a vacuum. Rather, its interdependencies are many and manifest.

It’s become a cliché but the Covid-19 storm has not found us all in the same boat. The impact on income, on employment, even on the chances of contracting the virus and recovering, is hugely influenced by three factors – ethnicity, gender and poverty.

This year, International Women’s Day also marks roughly one year since the global emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic.

If you work in local authority Building Control services, you’ll know that it’s impossible to plan for absolutely everything.

The UK’s huge unemployment crisis is just beginning, and it is becoming clear that young people are going to be hugely impacted.

There’s no question that the Coronavirus pandemic has hit councils across the UK hard, with a combination of residents needing more help and the mechanisms for delivering that help being disrupted.

World Youth Skills Day (15th July) comes as youth unemployment is soaring due to the Covid-19 pandemic.