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This report presents local governments' evidence needs on supporting people to enter and remain in employment, and proposes evidence reviews to address these.
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This report builds on the interim findings published in September 2025 to provide evidence on whether the JobsPlus model can be adapted to the UK context and effectively implemented to improve employment outcomes.
This report covers a study which followed a group of 40 teachers over the course of one academic year to gain an in-depth understanding of professional development, and of how the quality of teacher professional development and the perceived impact of professional development varies across different teachers and changes across the period of one year.
This report is an updated evaluation of the existing frameworks and toolkits for employers aimed at good youth employment, and how this research can inform the development of a good youth employment benchmarking tool by Youth Employment UK.
This report looks at fairness and wellbeing in the workplace and how it relates to employees' feelings and behaviours and includes recommendations for HR departments, line managers and employees.
This paper sets out evidence on what has worked in supporting ‘good work’ in employment programmes.
Skills Bootcamps were introduced in England in 2020 to support the Government’s ambition to deliver sector-specific skills to support employers. This report looks to build a better understanding of what the Skills Bootcamps deliver, and how far this articulates with provision elsewhere in the English skills system.
This report covers the ReAct research into support for Restart participants into self-employment and identifies the gaps and improvements that could be made.
This report covers ReAct's research into the participation of people with neurodiversity in the Restart programme and highlights how support for neurodiverse people looking for employment can be improved.
An infographic illustrating the evaluation by IES of the CECIL programme's modelling in Merseyside. The goal of the Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) programme is to tackle early gaps in children’s communication and language skills by providing support for high-quality practice in early years settings, with a focus on settings in areas marked by disadvantage. The file is downloadable in .pdf format at the bottom of this page.
An infographic illustrating the evaluation by IES of the CECIL programme's modelling in Merseyside.
The goal of the Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) programme is to tackle early gaps in children’s communication and language skills by providing support for high-quality practice in early years settings. This report covers the theory of change, methodology and findings of the evaluation of the CECIL programme's modelling in Merseyside.
