Straight Talking. Clear Thinking.
Confidence Is the Barrier Nobody Funds Ask what stops someone getting back to work and you’ll hear about skills, qualifications, experience. You’ll rarely hear the honest answer, which is that a lot of people simply don’t believe they could do the job they’re perfectly capable of doing. Confidence sounds like a soft factor right up […]
Future Employment Support – what we know – and what we don’t Restart’s final referrals closed in June 2026, after five years and around 1.2 million referrals. Existing participants keep receiving support for up to 12 months from their referral date, so delivery winds down rather than stopping overnight, but no new participants are entering […]
Measuring Behaviour Change Most L&D teams don’t need convincing that completion rate is the wrong lens for a performance-based organisation. Say it out loud in strategy meetings and people nod enthusiastically but there’s no framework on how to make it happen Now that personalisation, conversation, reflection and learning can be personalised with AI, it would […]
The employment support landscape is in one of its most significant periods of reform in recent years. Restart is making its final referrals this June and the new programme. Connect to Work is live and scaling across England and Wales. The Youth Guarantee is in trailblazers across eight mayoral areas with a national rollout underway. […]
Alan Milburn’s interim report into young people and work landed in May with a figure the employment support sector cannot ignore. For every £1 the system spends helping a young person into work, it spends around £25 keeping that same young person on benefits. We have built a system far better resourced to manage detachment […]
There is an assumption running through most AI learning strategies right now that deserves more scrutiny than it tends to receive. The assumption is that giving employees smarter tools will make them smarter learners. It sounds logical, and it may even feel obvious, but we have seen this pattern play out before in other areas […]
