Publications

Planning and Preparing for Later Life 2024

This research was commissioned by DWP to provide up to date information on people’s attitudes and behaviours around planning for retirement.

Tales Toolkit: Pilot Report

Tales Toolkit is a package of training and resources supporting 3 – 5‑year-old children’s early language and social development through oral storytelling.

Shared Employer Engagement in Practice

Lessons learned from Restart collaboration

This report covers research into the value and impact of the Restart employment programme in terms of the prime Restart providers and the employers they support.

Home-based working: submission of evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee

This submission of evidence looks at the rise in home-based working since the Covid-19 pandemic in the contexts of labour market participation, skills and career development, work-life balance and productivity and organisational effectiveness.

Slides: supporting unpaid carers in the workplace

A lived experience perspective

Dr Zofia Bajorek looks at the current situation facing informal carers in the UK and existing government support, and discusses avenues for improving and widening opportunities and access to support for carers.

Slides: tackling youth employment

Policy levers and effective practices

Becci Newton considers what we have learnt about providing youth employability support over many years, and considers what we might need in our toolkit to support better outcomes for those joining the labour force now and in the future.

Webinar slides: Persistent race inequalities in the UK's labour market and how to address them in your workplace

Using recent research insights from the health and adult social care sector and from youth employment, Meenakshi Krishnan and Claudia Plowden Roberts discussed the evolving landscape of racial inequalities in UK workplaces.

What works to promote employer action and behaviour change in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)

A report on the findings from IES's rapid evidence assessment to explore effective approaches for promoting employer behaviour change in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion. The research focuses on addressing disparities in youth employment outcomes due to persistent barriers, particularly for young people from ethnic minority backgrounds.