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Promoting Health and Wellbeing to Improve Workforce Productivity
The department for work and pensions estimates the economic cost of sickness absences to be over £100 billion a year. We heard from Nuzhat Ali of the Department of Health & Social Care about how promoting health and wellbeing in the workplace can build a more productive workforce and improve employee wellbeing
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Creating Inclusive Working Cultures to Help Employees Thrive
Employers need to ensure they have holistic frameworks in place to better support employees. Amy Low, Service Delivery Director at AbilityNet shares how improving workplace cultures can benefit both employee wellbeing and workforce productivity.
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Improving Workplace Relations to Drive Higher Staff Satisfaction and Retention
Two-thirds of university staff are considering leaving the sector, according to a new University and College Union report. Deteriorating work conditions have been cited as a contributing factor. Emma Slaven, Senior Advisor at ACAS, shares how transforming workplace relations and simple workplace adjustments can improve staff satisfaction and retention.
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Taking a Whole-Organisation Approach to Workforce Wellbeing
Promoting wellbeing in the workplace helps reduce presenteeism and mental health-related absence. We heard from Jessica Easterbrook, Lead HR and OD Consultant at East Sussex County Council, on why implementing a whole-organisation approach to workforce wellbeing is essential for improving overall productivity.
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Youth Employability: Widening Access to Technical Education
The DFE have developed several new policies to reform the further education sector, with the aims of improving youth employability. We heard from Sue Lovelock from the Department for Education about the value of T Levels and the importance of widening access to technical education to further promote employment.
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Youth Employability: Supporting Young Disabled People into Work by Building Relationships with Employers
There is often a misconception that disabled people are not as capable of holding down jobs or working in skilled sectors. We heard from Ellen Atkinson, Regional Adviser at the National Development Team for Inclusion. Ellen discussed why these myths should be dispelled and how employers can create pathways for disabled people to enter the workplace.
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Youth Employability: Supporting Youth Employment – A Cross-Government National Approach
More and more young people are claiming universal credit. To tackle this the Government’s Plan for Jobs is delivering a comprehensive package of support for young people, to help them into work. We heard from Tammy Fevrier, from the Department of Work and Pensions who discuss the current state of youth employment and opportunities to maximize youth employability.
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Workplace Wellbeing: Encouraging Workplace Leaders to Embrace Diversity
Jess Lievesley, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Austin Omotoso, Clinical Nurse Leader at St Andrew's Healthcare spoke about staff led conversations to improve wellbeing in the workplace, as well as ways of embracing diversity.
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Reshaping the Workplace: Mental Wellbeing in an Age of Virtual & Hybrid Working
Many workers struggled to adapt to a remote working environment – with reports of loneliness and isolation. Jonny Gifford from the CIPD shared their insights into promoting mental wellbeing during a time of remote working and hybrid working.
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Workplace Wellbeing: The Workplace Health Programme of Northamptonshire
Holly Koenig, Wellbeing Co-ordinator for Public Health Northamptonshire spoke about the Workplace Health Programme of Northamptonshire.
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Gender at Work: Barriers and Solutions for Gender Equality in the Workplace
Felicia Willow spoke at the Achieving Gender Equality in the Workplace Conference, 2021 about the current barriers and solutions for gender equality in the workplace.
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The Reshaping the Future of Women In Business Conference in Conversation with Louise Prachard
Louise Prachard engages in conversation about the future of women in business.
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