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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 Labour Market Story is an overarching narrative paper that summarises employment and skills in the UK, and four thematic briefing papers. This paper draws on recent quantitative and qualitative research to provide an analysis of future employment trends and associated skills requirements. It considers potential drivers of skills demand in the future, including globalisation, economic trends, science and technology, environmental change, and changing societal values.
The National Student Survey (NSS) has run since 2004. The UK higher education funding bodies, which own the survey, commissioned research to review the purposes of the NSS and how effectively it meets them, and to make recommendations for the survey’s future shape. This set of four reports comprises a summary report, literature review and the responses to surveys and discussions with students and stakeholders.
This study clarified factors that make coaching effective and should be included in the coaching process. Six hundred and forty four industry professionals who had been through or were currently going through the coaching process responded to a questionnaire. The findings focus on the main components involved in the coaching process: the coach, the coachee, the organisation, the coaching process and the relationship between coach and coachee.
Maggie Smith gives an overview of this well-received session about openness, what it is, how it can be encouraged, and what the barriers can be.
The Youth Contract offers additional support for disengaged 16-17 year olds to move into education, training or work with training. This working paper summarises the key findings of an evaluation study on the impacts and social net benefits of the early stages of the Youth Contract, carried out on behalf of the Department for Education by the Institute for Employment Studies.
This evaluation covered the experiences of early entrants to this Youth Contract component. It showed that some common approaches had emerged as part of delivery and demonstrated the importance of individualised support through keyworkers in assisting young people to re-engage.
This report contains the tables from the two surveys of Local Authorities in England that were undertaken as part of the evaluation of the Youth Contract for 16-17 year olds not in education, employment or training. Key findings from the surveys are contained within the synthesis report.
This report examines four scenarios of social partner cooperation in the hairdressing sector, aimed at improving the quality of work and employment.
This paper sets out the evidence for the linkage between employee engagement and wellbeing, and the consequential impact on individual and organisational performance.
White paper shared with HR Network members by Paul Sparrow, Lancaster University Management School, speaking on 'The innovation imperative' at the IES HR Directors' Retreat, 19 June 2014.
