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JobsPlus is a voluntary community-led, hyperlocal employment support programme designed to help people in social housing communities find work. This partnership paper presents the findings from the JobsPlus pilot evaluation which relate to working with local partners, summarising the wide-spread benefits of this approach.
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These top tips have been developed as part of the Labour Market Evidence programme, a partnership with Learning and Work institute. They share practical lessons on designing, delivering and evaluating local work and health programmes. They are designed for local and regional policy, delivery, data and evaluation teams, and senior decision makers.
In this issue: sectoral distribution of job losses and gains; top five cases of job loss and job creation; cases in focus: airline restructuring; support measures in focus: Lithuania; and sector in focus: recent restructuring in postal services.
IES, supported by the Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI), was commissioned by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), working in conjunction with the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), to examine and assess the take-up by rural businesses of national mainstream government business and employer skills support programmes. The purpose of the project was, firstly, to compare uptake of business support and skills provision among rural and urban businesses, and secondly, to identify options for improving take-up if evidence of disparity was found.
This report summarises the main findings of research into the 'degree to which rural businesses are accessing national employer skills programmes and government business support programmes and identify options for improving take-up if evidence shows that rural businesses are not accessing programmes that might benefit them’.
This report looks at the impact that public policy has had on personal and household services (PHS) around the EU. Specifically, it considers those tools that aim at encouraging formal employment and discourage undeclared work.
