Your December at-a-glance summary of insights, tools and resources to support and guide your continuing professional development
As your professional body, we’re here to help you stay ahead of emerging trends so you can make your greatest impact at work. This month, we published our Annual Report for the year ending June 2025, resources to help you prepare for the Employment Rights Bill, updated factsheets to help you refresh your recruitment know-how and developed tools to help you manage your own wellbeing.
We carefully design these resources to keep you up to date and support your continuing professional development (CPD), helping you grow and maintain your professional impact.
Here’s what you might have missed:
This month, we proudly published our Annual Report for the year ending June 2025. In it, our Chief Executive Peter Cheese shares his reflections on a year of progress, despite the challenging times we’re all facing, and outlines the CIPD’s vision for 2026.
We encourage you to read the report, which celebrates everything we achieved together in 2024/25 and explores the opportunities ahead, as we continue to deliver on our promises to support the people profession and champion your voice.
Reflecting on the UK Government’s Autumn Budget announcement, we highlighted concerns that businesses were facing higher employment costs and called on the UK Government to do more to boost growth and support businesses.
Against this backdrop, we believe the people profession has a real opportunity to demonstrate its ability to lead organisations through change and find smarter, more sustainable ways to grow. As your trusted career partner, we’ll be by your side every step of the way. Through practical tools and professional development opportunities, we’ll help you navigate the uncertainty ahead.
Workforce planning | Factsheets | CIPD
Workplace Pensions | Factsheets | CIPD
Understanding Economy & Labour Market | Factsheets | CIPD
Throughout the development of the Employment Rights Bill, we’ve shared your insight with the UK Government to ensure your voice is heard at the highest level. Following negotiations between trade unions and employer bodies, including the CIPD, this month the Government agreed to amend its proposed changes to unfair dismissal rules
This outcome shows the strength of our representation of the profession alongside of other employer bodies of the profession’s voice alongside other employer bodies in influencing legislation that balances business needs with protections for employees. There are more details to be confirmed, and you can keep up to date on all the latest developments with our Employment Rights Bill tracker.
To read the letter shared with the Government by the CIPD and other business bodies, and the secretary of State’s response, visit https://ow.ly/b0as50XJzgi
Here’s a rundown of key employment law resources this month:
Tickets went on sale this month for our UK nations conferences, taking place across Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland in 2026.
Each event will bring people professionals together to explore the local challenges, opportunities and trends shaping the future of work. They are also a chance for you to build your skills, invest in your development and strengthen the networks that help good people practice drive performance and productivity.
People professionals are often the face of sensitive business activities, such as managing conflict and restructuring programmes, even when they’re not the decision makers. Our work often also involves advising employees through difficult personal circumstances, such as health issues or bereavement. Although the profession plays an important role in supporting the wellbeing of employees, the complexity and demands of our role mean it's crucial we also take care of ourselves.
We published a new video offering expert advice to help you manage and maintain your wellbeing as part of our guidance on how to look after your own mental health.
This month, we published updated resources exploring recruitment, from defining a role to making an appointment and on the fundamentals of succession planning and its link to talent management.
We’re continually reviewing and updating our resources to ensure you have the most relevant content at your fingertips to guide your ongoing development. Check out some of this month’s refreshed essential resources:
Our discussion forums provide a safe, open space for our global community of people professionals like you. Members share their insights and seek advice on the issues they’re facing in their day-to-day roles. Topics of discussion this month included:
Keeping up to date is an important part of your continuing professional development – and a requirement of CIPD membership. Explore our resources and don’t forget to log your learning reflections in the ‘My CPD records’ area of the CIPD Learning Hub.
We have around 100 regularly-updated factsheets providing overviews and information on key topics
Our guides provide recommendations and advice on how to apply good practices in the workplace
Listen to episodes from our podcast series on a range of topical workplace, HR and L&D issues
Practical resources to support you in the workplace
