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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.
IES was commissioned to carry out an evidence review to better understand the culture and behaviours in businesses and enforcement bodies, as well as the communication between these two groups that facilitate or inhibit compliance with regulation. This review is an update to the findings in the 2010 report, which examines the relevant evidence that has accumulated over the last four years.
The overall aim of the research was to gain a deeper understanding of the way in which organisations had responded to their obligations under the DDA. The research pays particular attention to the changes introduced by the DDA 2005, most notably the extension of the legislation to include public bodies (in areas not already covered by the existing goods and services provisions), larger private clubs and locally electable authorities (with regard to discrimination against disabled elected members). The research also covers organisational responses to the DDA 1995 to get a complete picture.
This publication was authored by Helen Gray before she joined IES.
This publication was authored by Helen Gray before she joined IES.
Europe continued to show signs of a tentative recovery with marginally positive growth and other economic indicators stabilising. There were however persistent concerns over levels of public debt and, to a lesser extent, over the stability of the euro. Unemployment had not risen in the last quarter (9.6%, EU27 in each of the three months February to May 2010) having increased sharply (by 3 percentage points) since the beginning of 2008.
This publication was authored by Helen Gray before she joined IES.
This literature review focuses on flexible resourcing of nursing staff in the National Health Service (NHS) through the three main types of temporary nursing staff; bank nurses, agency nurses and nurses provided through NHS Professionals. It also examines flexible working arrangements for permanent nurses within the NHS.
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement commissioned IES to undertake market research to support the development of a 'National Ideas Platform'. There were four broad learning outcomes from the work, providing information on: what affects people's use of online resources and why some networks work; how do people go about sharing ideas at the moment; what technologies are people using at present and for what purposes and whether people want a new network.
This report provides findings from the interim stage of the evaluation of the ‘Work-Focused Services in Children’s Centres’ pilot. The pilot operated in ten local authority areas (30 Sure Start Children’s Centres in total) in England, providing work-focused services through a dedicated Jobcentre Plus Personal Adviser, as well as activities designed to meet local needs. It ran from January 2009 to March 2011.
The aim of this study was to explore the supply of, and demand for, technician level Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) underpinning skills within the UK. This report was based on the analysis of the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the linked European Labour Force Survey (ELFS) both of which provided a range of detailed labour market information.
