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  • British Council DEI case study cover

    What enables effective EDI implementation, monitoring, and assessment?

    Case study - lessons from the British Council

    Krishnan M and Plowden Roberts C | Sep 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This case study looks at EDI in the context of the British Council, which has achieved success in terms of EDI implementation, monitoring, and assessment, and reflects on what can be learnt from this.

  • JobsPlus evaluation report cover

    JobsPlus pilot implementation and process evaluation

    Interim report and technical annex

    Institute for Employment Studies (IES) & Learning & Work Institute (L&W) | Sep 2025

    This interim report and accompanying technical annex cover the evaluation of the JobsPlus pilot programme, an initiative that supports job seekers living in social housing to find employment and progress in the workplace.

  • Shared employer engagement in practice: what works

    ReAct: collaborating for employers

    Gloster R, Kramers E | Sep 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    In our second briefing paper, we turn our focus to another Restart collaboration, that of the Prime Provider Network which represents national employer engagement teams from across the Restart providers.

  • Language programmes evaluation: interim report

    Institute for Employment Studies (IES) & National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) | Sep 2025

    This evaluation focuses on a number of initiatives designed to improve the teaching and learning of Modern Foreign Languages in English schools.

  • ReAct partnerships briefing paper 1

    ReAct strategic partnership working: what works

    ReAct: the case for collaboration

    Fox H, Gloster R | Sep 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    In the run-up to the ERSA conference in November 2025, the ReAct partnership will release a series of briefing papers highlighting key research from the collaboration and how the insights can inform solutions to Get Britain Working. This is the first in the series.

  • Labour Market Statistics, August 2025

    Ghosh S, Sharma M  | Aug 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This quarterly briefing sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published this morning covering the period from April 2025 to June 2025.

  • Planning and preparing for later life cover

    Planning and Preparing for Later Life 2024

    Butt S, Chapman B, Cottis Black O, Dyer A and Palmer S | Jul 2025 | Department for Work and Pensions

    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

    Williams C, Huxley C, Garner O, Illidge L, Talbot J, Newton B  | Jul 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    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 Report

    Shared Employer Engagement in Practice

    Lessons learned from Restart collaboration

    Kramers E, Allen A, Gloster R, Litsardopoulos N | Jul 2025 | IES

    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.

  • Remote hybrid-work: IES submission of evidence

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

    Allen A and Gifford J | Jul 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    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.