Professor Brian Cox, safeguarding the NHS, hybrid work tips and lessons learned from mistakes in the pandemic - here are some of the key takeaways we gleaned from this week's CIPD Festival of Work.

Several organisations have come together to create the UK’s first universal framework for essential skills

Efficiency should never be substituted for trust, according to Oxford university lecturer and author of Who Can You Trust? Rachel Botsman

Half (53%) of employers paying the apprenticeship levy would like to see it replaced with a training levy