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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.
The event programme from Alison Carter and Mary Wayne Bush's IES HR Network event 'Reflective practice skills workshop' on 16 April 2015
This paper offers a concise summary of the key facts you need to implement the new Shared Parental Leave and Pay regulations. It also offers an insight into the questions being asked by employers, and what they are doing to address the issues raised.
This report sets out the evidence from a review of evaluation and monitoring evidence on the performance of two of UKCES’ investment funds, specifically the Employer Investment Fund (EIF) and the Growth and Innovation Fund (GIF). The report takes stock of the evidence on what the funds have achieved up to Summer 2014, and provides a summary of lessons to inform other investment programmes as well as policy development work.
This is the first year interim research report on the findings from a series of seven qualitative case studies. The report forms part of a multi-year evaluation assessing the impact of the two investment programmes: the Employer Investment Fund (EIF) and the Growth and Innovation Fund (GIF).
This publication was authored by Helen Gray before she joined IES
Alison Carter's slides from the IES HR Network event 'Mindfulness at work', on 17 March 2015.
Liz Hall's slides from the IES HR Network event 'Mindfulness at work', on 17 March 2015
Alison Carter's slides from the IES HR Network event 'Mindfulness at work', on 17 March 2015
This report seeks to explore management and leadership skills and the development of management and leadership capability in Jersey based organisations. It draws on a previous piece of work undertaken by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and reported in 20121. The questionnaire used in the Jersey research deliberately draws on many of the questions used in the ‘2012 CMI’ survey to allow comparison and benchmarking.
The Apprenticeship Trailblazers aim to achieve greater employer ownership of Apprenticeship training. IES was commissioned to lead an evaluation of the early Trailblazers. This infographic highlights the key points of a report published this week by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, revealing the interim findings.
