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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 briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published this morning (11 August). Today’s figures largely cover the period of full lockdown (from March to June), alongside July data from employee payrolls and the vacancy survey.
The report aims to promote an understanding of what workplace counselling is, its purpose and the evidence-base underpinning its use. In addition, the report discusses the future of workplace counselling and ways that its benefits and impact can be more widely understood.
Jenny Holmes' slides from IES HR webinar: Diversity: drivers, data and an example framework
This project uses mixed methods to investigate the link between internal migration and social mobility. More specifically, it looks at who leaves deprived areas and how that varies across Great Britain.
This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published this morning (11 July). This covers claimant count data to 11 June 2020, Pay As You Earn tax data to June and Labour Force Survey data from March to May.
This briefing note sets out early analysis of the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on low paid employees, drawing on detailed analysis of Labour Force Survey (LFS) responses for the month of April.
This is the thirteenth and last weekly briefing looking at changes in vacancies since the Covid-19 crisis began. This briefing covers vacancies up to Sunday 5 July 2020. The briefing sets out analysis of new vacancies, overall vacancy levels, and vacancies by area, job type and salary band.
This weekly briefing sets out analysis of online vacancies as at Sunday 28 June 2020. The work is funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and uses vacancy data collected by the job search engine Adzuna. The briefing sets out analysis of new vacancies, overall vacancy levels, and vacancies by area, job type and salary band. This week’s briefing also includes analysis of changes in vacancy levels by Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs).
In October 2019, the Department for Education (DfE) commissioned the Institute for Employment (IES) to conduct further research on Capacity and Delivery Fund (CDF) to explore providers’ and employers’ views on updates to the T Level industry placement models policy.
This report brings together the findings from across two phases of evaluation. The first phase focused primarily on the provider experience with a sample of providers taking part in CDF year 1. In the second phase there was a dual focus on employers and providers as well as an analysis of monitoring information and delivery of a provider survey.
