Archive for October 2024

The survey asked questions about things such as health and well-being, pay and conditions, and what people like about working in the sector. This year, we also asked more questions about things such as bullying, harassment and discrimination, to get a deeper understanding of workers’ experiences.

How do societies address poverty and tackle the shifts taking place in labour markets that make work less attainable, less remunerative and less predictable – particularly for people with disabilities? How do we manage the associated rise in personal debt? Are our welfare systems up to the task of giving people the support they need not simply to survive but also to flourish as our economies change? How have neoliberal political economic norms and policies impacted work and welfare, and what does the future hold as those norms and policies shift?

A letter sent to the chancellor by a leading health charity, thinktanks and the body that represents accountants says carving out a new category of preventive spending would mean a healthier population and save the NHS money.

Everyone has stretches of sadness. Shifting how you think about and relate to sad feelings could help you through these times

A quantitative analysis of 16 million articles related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) revealed only a modest relationship between conventional indicators of research quality and citation in policy documents as indicators for article influence in formulating policies.