Skills shortages

As work becomes more tech-driven, organisations will require more individuals with 'generalist' skills to work across teams.

Skills for Care says the adult social care sector needs a workforce strategy to tackle recruitment and retention needs.

More than three-quarters of UK businesses think access to skills is harming labour market competitiveness, according to the CBI and Pertemps.

The UK’s jobs market in September 2023 showed signs of normalising following the Covid upheaval of 2020-2022.

The civil service is to employ 2,500 new tech recruits via apprenticeships and early careers programmes by June 2025.

The UK workforce is suffering from a significant level of brain drain with many companies at risk of losing their top talent, according to new research.

Recruitment drives by the UK Border Force has led to prisons near ports and airports finding it difficult to retain staff, a Prison Service has reported.

The CIPD has unveiled a manifesto for good work, which calls on the next UK government to develop a long-term workforce strategy.

Pay confidence returns to positive territory for the first time since pandemic restrictions were lifted, according to Robert Half and Cebr.

The analysis found that the increase in the number of young people who were Neet was entirely driven by young men, who increased by 38,000 on the quarter.

Many female tech leaders feel that the growth of women entering tech remains stunted because of significant barriers of access to the sector.

A drop in permanent placements and growth in candidate availability means there could be positivity on the horizon.

Businesses need to replace outdated 'total reward' approaches to how they pay employees with a more systemic approach.

The skills gap in tech could be closed if more women were attracted into the sector, but employers are short of plans to improve the gender split.

The £600m funding will include a £570m workforce fund over two years, distributed to local authorities, and £30m funding for local authorities in the most challenged health systems.