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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.
This report brings together two pieces of qualitative research examining the impact of health problems on lone parents' decisions about work. In 2003 and 2004, 112 interviews and six focus groups were carried out with lone parents. The research examines the complex relationship between health and work for lone parents and determines whether there is more that can be done to support lone parents with health problems and, in particular, to help them enter the labour market.
This report presents results of a survey of 3,431 individual beneficiaries who left projects supported under ESF Objective 3 in England during the latter part of 2002. There was considerable variety between different kinds and circumstances of beneficiary, but underpinned by fairly widespread experience of disadvantage across much of the cohort.
This publication is no longer available. This data annex provides background data for the review of the 'professional technologist' by the Engineering Technology Board. It gives basic data and brief analytical commentary from the Labour Force Survey. The report also introduces and documents a series of data classifications that it is hoped provide a useful way of examining the available data.
This report, by IES for the Department for Education and Skills, contains the findings of a major research study over two years. It shows the various influences on minority ethnic participation and their achievement in higher education, and their transitions to the labour market. It presents the most comprehensive and detailed picture yet to emerge. The distribution of minority ethnic students is strongly skewed to particular universities, and they are underrepresented in some key subjects.
This report reviews the existing literature covering the factors that influence the choices that pupils and students make about studying chemistry and chemical careers. This publication is no longer available.
Socio-economic research involves the collection and other further processing of personal data. The processing of personal data is regulated by law, and the researchers have therefore to comply with these legal requirements. These guidelines have been drafted taking into account Directive 95/46/CE and the national legislation of most of the current Member States of the European Union that implement it. They outline the general principles governing data protection, provide for key concept descriptions, and include a series of recommendations, allowing the researcher to take into consideration the various requirements in the field of data protection.
The RESPECT project involved the development of guidelines, or codes, in a number of separate areas: data protection, intellectual property rights, research ethics, professional issues and professional competencies. This report addresses one aspect of the RESPECT project: the development of a set of ethical guidelines or a 'code' of standards to inform the conduct of socio-economic research in the European Union.
Socio-economic research creates intellectual property and is itself based on intellectual property. The rules concerning intellectual property rights should always be kept in mind when conducting any kind of socio-economic research. The guidelines in this report should enable those concerned with socio-economic research to take an overview of the rights at stake, and how to take them into account.
The RESPECT project involved the development of guidelines, or codes, in a number of separate areas: data protection, intellectual property rights, research ethics, professional issues and professional competencies. This part of the RESPECT project created a professional competency profile.
This report uncovers the barriers to adult basic skills learning, such as issues of stigma and negative perceptions, practical barriers relating to health or childcare and cost, barriers experienced by providers (eg, funding and class sizes) and barriers to workplace learning. The report considers how, and to what extent, these barriers can be overcome and highlights elements of good practice.
