Where you live can have a significant impact on your mental health. Like many other aspects of healthcare, the mental health picture varies across the country. It can also vary within regions.

Stanton Chase, one of the world’s top ten leading global executive search and leadership consultancy firms, has today restated its commitment to lead the way in diversity, equity, and inclusion. It has partnered with the Purpose Coalition on the development of a set of Levelling Up Goals.

York St John University has launched a new report that outlines its social impact against an innovative set of levelling up measures.

In her latest blog Anne Milton discusses a new study by the University of Sussex and the University of Manchester, which looked at UK social survey data for the 20 years between 1993 and 2017 and highlighted the stark and significant ethnic inequalities that exist.

Make Happen, the Essex Uni Connect partnership, has launched a Levelling Up Action Plan to boost opportunities across the county and beyond. 

A new report launched this week by the University of York warns that more needs to be done to address social mobility across the country, with a plea to “turn the lessons of the pandemic into a powerful agent for change.”

In her latest blog Anne Milton discusses a new report which shows that women from deprived communities and those from ethnic minority backgrounds are at at greater risk of maternal death.

Like many large businesses, Gateley’s reach goes far beyond the company itself. By using the Levelling Up Goals to focus clearly on what it is doing well but also to acknowledge where there is a need to do more, it has the capacity to deliver a coherent strategy for change.

In her latest blog, Justine Greening discusses how businesses can learn from our education system when trying to build a diverse workforce.

Solent University has today (Thursday 11 November 2021) become one of the first universities to launch a Levelling Up Impact Report. 

The pandemic has shown that tackling the digital divide should not just be an item on a wish list for the future. It is an economic and social imperative that can empower people to do the jobs they want while remaining rooted in the communities in which they want to live.

In her latest blog, Anne Milton discusses a new report which highlights inequalities in pregnancy outcomes. And the duty we have to enable mothers and their babies to start life on a level playing field.

Read about how Network Rail is setting out a pan-industry safeguarding approach to help provide a route out of homelessness for every rough sleeper on Britain’s railways. 

New research commissioned by the City Mental Health Alliance (CMHA) in partnership with Bupa, has found that the impact of social restrictions imposed during the pandemic and the new working patterns that were introduced, together with anxiety about climate change, has created a perfect storm for young people’s mental health.

Read our latest blog from Justine Greening on how the Government could soon be asking organisations for their levelling up plans.

We talk to Ashley Cotton about Staffordshire University’s Step Up Programme.

Politicians struggle with technology. Whether it be social media regulation, making big tech pay their fair share in taxes, or upskilling the workforce, we’ve witnessed policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic struggle to communicate a convincing vision for a more dynamic and harmonious digital world.

Read Justine Greening’s thoughts on the 2021 budget and how the announcements were more about closing Covid gaps than addressing long-term inequalities.

The ability to respond agilely to unforeseen situations is crucial to business success. We saw this in the first few months of the pandemic when organisations were forced to change their ways of working, not just to maintain their operations but to look after their colleagues and communities.

“We’ve now gifted more than one million pounds of our apprenticeship levy and are one of the first companies to capture and analyse employee demographics as recommended by the Social Mobility Commission and Purpose Coalition. This year, we became the first hospitality and FM company to publish ethnicity pay gap data”