New research has highlighted the levels of poor mental health in the legal sector, exacerbated by negative working practices and the impact of COVID-19.

Ministers need to finally step up with their own plan on education to develop Britain’s talent pipeline for the long term.

In her latest blog Anne Milton discusses new life expectancy data and why where you live can have a direct impact on how long you live.

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust has joined a growing number of NHS organisations by committing to a new set of levelling up measurements.

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) has become the first mental health trust to commit to a new set of levelling up measurements.

New figures show that nearly half of all adults in England say that the pandemic has negatively impacted their mental health, with more than a third - 15 million people - saying they did not know how to improve it.

Iain Dale talks to former Cabinet Minister Justine Greening about her life and career in politics, including how she said ‘no’ to Theresa May, her coming out by tweet, the levelling up agenda and much more besides.

Sage, the market leader in cloud business management solutions, today announced it has partnered with the Purpose Coalition to ensure the levelling up agenda supports enterprise amongst underrepresented groups.

Anne Milton discusses how different parts of the country face different challenges and a range of tailored solutions will be needed to help address the specific inequalities faced.

Measuring is not only a good way of checking how far you’ve come but also how far you still have to go. It provides information but can also inspire encouragement, determination and even good old-fashioned competitiveness. It’s also fundamental to change.

A major new study from the Co-op, looking at the attitudes, life chances and aspirations of young people, the Ghosted Generation, has revealed that children as young as 10 years old think the pandemic will affect their chances for the rest of their life.

There’s a feeling of new starts around this time of year. It’s back to school for children and their teachers, young people head off to university and away from home, often for the first time, and people return to their workplaces after summer breaks. These may have been restricted this year, but the first Monday of September still saw the busiest morning on the London Tube since the first national lockdown.

“Levelling up” is how we deliver equality of opportunity: extending the same opportunities to those who don’t currently have them as for those who do. How to do so is yet to be set out by Boris Johnson’s government, Justine Greening argues, but it requires systematically closing the opportunity gaps that open up from our earliest years, into education and then careers.

Allwyn has joined a number of UK businesses, universities and public sector organisations to sign up to the Levelling Up Goals and play its part in efforts to create a level playing field for equal opportunities across the UK.

This week the Office for National Statistics reported that the number of workers on company payrolls increased in August, returning to pre-pandemic levels in most regions across the UK.

As the NHS continues to deal with cases of Covid, and ensure vaccination continues, Anne Milton discusses the difficult job NHS organisations have in reducing the backlogs in diagnosis, treatment and care of both physical and mental health illness.

Justine Greening explains why a bespoke approach for individual communities is needed for levelling up.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government will become the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities as the Government delivers on its central mission to level up every part of the UK.

Children from whole sections of society and disadvantaged backgrounds continue to be shut out of parts of our higher education system.

Essex County Council has partnered with former Education Secretary Rt Hon Justine Greening in a bid to tackle inequality and help level up the region.