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  Work-Life Balance: Beyond the Rhetoric

  Kodz J, Harper H, Dench S | Feb 2002 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Many employers now recognise that work-life balance is a key issue and offer employees a range of flexible working options. Nevertheless, take-up of these options remains low. The perceived impact on career prospects, as well as a number of other factors, can be off-putting for employees. Individuals and their managers therefore need to be supported to get over some of the difficulties and barriers they experience to ensure work-life balance policies and practices work effectively.

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  Evaluation of New Deal 50 plus - Qualitative Evidence from Clients: Third phase

  Aston J, Willison R, Kodz J | Nov 2001 | Employment Service

  This publication is no longer available. This research was based on 30 in-depth interviews with participants of the programme. It follows two earlier phases of qualitative research and its aim was to evaluate the longer term outcomes of the programme. All respondents had also participated in at least one of these two previous phases of the research.

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  Evaluation of New Deal 50 plus - Research with Individuals (Wave 1)

  Atkinson J, Dewson S | Sep 2001 | Employment Service

  This publication is no longer available. This report presents the results of the first representative survey (1,023 face to face interviews nationally) of New Deal 50 plus participants which was carried out in September 2000. The survey has explored the key elements of the programme with participants, including their entry routes on to the programme, their experiences of caseloading and the New Deal Personal Adviser (NDPA) service, the Employment Credit and the Training Grant.

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  Evaluation of New Deal 50 plus - Research with Individuals (Wave 2)

  Atkinson J | Sep 2001 | Employment Service

  This publication is no longer available. This report presents findings of a telephone survey of 503 participants in New Deal 50 plus undertaken in February 2001. Half the respondents (the re-contacts) had taken part in a survey six months previously, and were now being followed up; the other half (the new contacts) had joined the programme during those six months.

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  Evaluation of New Deal 50 Plus - Qualitative Evidence from Clients: Second Phase

  Kodz J, Eccles J | Mar 2001 | Employment Service

  This publication is no longer available. New Deal 50 plus was a voluntary programme for unemployed and economically inactive people aged 50 and over, who had been out of work for six months or more. This report is based upon in-depth qualitative research with participants of the programme.

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  Evaluation of New Deal 50 Plus - Qualitative Evidence from ES and BA Staff: Second Phase

  Atkinson J, Dewson S, Kodz J | Mar 2001 | Employment Service

  This publication is no longer available. New Deal 50 plus was a voluntary programme for unemployed and economically inactive people aged 50 and over, who had been out of work for six months or more. This research was conducted during September and October 2000, some six months after ND 50 plus was rolled out nationally. It draws on interviews with ES and BA staff in four areas (Newcastle & South Tyneside, Southwark, Eastbourne & Hastings, and North Derbyshire). It builds on an earlier study of four Pathfinder areas.

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  Evaluation of New Deal 50 plus - Qualitative Evidence from Clients: First Phase

  Atkinson J, Kodz J, Dewson S, Eccles J | Dec 2000 | Employment Service

  This publication is no longer available. New Deal 50 plus was part of the Government's welfare to work initiative, and directed towards people aged 50 and over who had been out of work for six months or more and wished to return to employment. This included older people claiming Jobseekers Allowance, those claiming other benefits, those with a disability or long term illness, and the dependent partners of people on these benefits. This report draws on focus groups with New Deal 50 plus clients conducted in four Pathfinder areas: Dorset, City Pride (Manchester), Edinburgh East and Midlothian, and the Black Country.

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  Evaluation of New Deal 50 plus - Qualitative Evidence from ES and BA Staff: First Phase

  Atkinson J, Dewson S, Kodz J | Dec 2000 | Employment Service

  This publication is no longer available. New Deal 50 plus was a voluntary programme for unemployed and economically inactive people aged 50 and over, who had been out of work for six months or more. This research was conducted during the spring of 2000, before ND 50 plus was rolled out nationally. It draws on interviews with ES and BA staff in four Pathfinder areas, Dorset, the Black Country, City Pride (Manchester), and Edinburgh East and Midlothian.

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  Learning in Later Life: Motivation and Impact

  Dench S, Regan J | Jan 2000 | Department for Education and Employment

  The Department for Education and Employment commissioned this study from IES to explore the impact of learning on older people, in terms of social and community activity and involvement. The study also provides information on patterns and characteristics of learning among a sample of people aged between 50 and 71, their motivations for learning, reasons for not learning, barriers to learning and other aspects of their lives.

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  Occupational Pensions and Disabled People

  Meager N, Bates P, McGeer P, Tackey N D | Oct 1999 | Department for Education and Employment

  This report examines how occupational pension schemes operate and how they treat disabled people. The study aimed to assist the Disability Rights Task Force in assessing what changes (if any) might be appropriate to the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) relating to occupational pensions.