Diversity Dashboard News
Our News section brings together the latest updates on jobs, workplaces and employment issues shaping the UK. Here you’ll find reporting and commentary on careers, work trends and developments that matter to people navigating today’s job market.
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Friday, December 19, 2025
Former industrial and mining communities across the UK are still living with the effects of economic decline that began half a century ago, according to a major new report from the Social Mobility Commission.
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Friday, December 19, 2025
The UK labour market is showing increasing signs of strain, with new figures indicating a sharp decline in available roles that is likely to hit young professionals and recent graduates hardest.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
The UK Government has announced a £725 million package of apprenticeship reforms designed to create 50,000 new opportunities for young people over the next three years, in a major bid to curb rising youth unemployment and stimulate economic growth.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
West Mercia Police have issued an update following the fatal stabbing of a University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) student in Worcester, after several suspects arrested on suspicion of murder were released on bail while enquiries continue.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
BAE Systems has opened applications for its 2026 apprenticeship and graduate programmes, creating more than 2,300 opportunities for young people across the UK and continuing its major investment in developing the next generation of skilled workers.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
The Government has confirmed a significant set of minimum wage increases that will take effect next year, delivering a pay rise for millions of workers across the UK.
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
New analysis shows disabled workers in the UK earn on average £2.24 an hour less than non-disabled workers – a disability pay gap of 15.5% that leaves them more than £4,000 a year worse off, on top of higher living costs and greater insecurity at work.
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
A leading neurologist and geneticist at the University of Sheffield has been appointed to the first-ever Rob Burrow Professorship in Translational Neurobiology, an academic post created in honour of the late rugby league legend and MND campaigner Rob Burrow CBE.
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is calling for urgent investment to expand the UK’s nursing workforce after new figures revealed that stress among nursing staff has risen to an eight-year high, driving many to work while unwell.
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
The UK workforce reports some of the highest levels of team-based inclusion in the world, according to new research, but experts warn that deeper gaps in representation and equality of opportunity still remain.
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Monday, November 17, 2025
UK disability charity Astriid is calling on the government to overhaul employment support for people living with long-term health conditions, warning that millions are being shut out of work by systems that fail to recognise energy-limiting illness.