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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.
Peter Reilly and Tony William's Global HR explores the key issues of brand, talent management, service transformation and change, drawing on examples from multinationals in telecoms, fast-moving consumer goods, manufacturing, software, services and commodities. In doing so, they offer insights into managing people and businesses that no organization can ignore.
If employees become ill or injured at work, they might be able to claim compensation from their employer. The ELCI Act (1969) requires that employers take out insurance against such claims. There are some exemptions to this, including public bodies, and those employing specified relatives only. Previous research in this area has found inconsistent levels of compliance, and some of it is quite out-of-date. This research was undertaken to provide a robust measure of levels of compliance in order to support policy development in this area.
The Get Connected Investment Project aimed to enable care providers to improve access for service users, carers, visitors and staff to ICT so they could use the power of the internet to communicate, learn and train. The overarching aim of the evaluation was to assess the impact of the funding on service users and staff.
There is limited guidance available to help workplaces support employees to adopt low-carbon behaviours and the evidence on effective interventions is not robust. This research, commissioned jointly by the Scottish Government, Defra and the 2020 Climate Group in June 2011, sought to address this gap by investigating what works in delivering low-carbon behavioural initiatives in the workplace.
This practical guide offers help and advice for businesses and other employers who want to reduce their carbon footprint. It’s been developed from research with businesses, local authorities, and support agencies - so the advice it offers is based on real-life experience.
This case study examines a programme of flexible working options introduced at Aberdeenshire Council. The programme aimed at reducing staff commuting mileage by allowing staff to change their working patterns and achieving financial savings through a reduction in the number of council offices. The study considers how financial pressures in an organisation can provide a good opportunity to reflect on work organisation and deliver cash savings alongside environmental sustainability.
The Department for Work and Pensions launched the Occupational Health Advice Lines service in winter 2009. The service was one of a number of initiatives trialled to address the issues raised by Dame Carol Black in her review of the health of Britain’s working population and operated nationally across England, Scotland and Wales. This report presents the findings of that evaluation.
