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  • Maximising Adviser Impact

    Supporting workforce development

    Krishnan M, Mansour J, Wilson T, Mason D, Kramers E | Sep 2024 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report explores the current challenges and opportunities for developing and supporting employment advisers on Restart.

  • ReAct partnerships briefing paper 1

    ReAct strategic partnership working: what works

    ReAct: the case for collaboration

    Fox H, Gloster R | Sep 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    In the run-up to the ERSA conference in November 2025, the ReAct partnership will release a series of briefing papers highlighting key research from the collaboration and how the insights can inform solutions to Get Britain Working. This is the first in the series.

  • Labour Market Statistics, April 2021

    Apr 2021 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 20 April 2021.

  • Social dimension of intra-EU mobility: Impact on public services

    Dec 2015 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)

    This report looks at the impact of intra-EU mobility on the public services of Member States of the European Union. The current debate in many Member States centres on the ‘welfare magnet hypothesis’, which holds that migrants, including mobile citizens from the central and eastern European Member States, are attracted by the better quality of these services and easier access to them in the host countries.

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    Measuring Soft Outcomes and Distance Travelled: A Review of Current Practice

    Dewson S, Eccles J, Tackey N D, Jackson A | Jul 2000 | Department for Education and Employment

    Monitoring systems for employment programmes targeting unemployed people have traditionally focused on 'hard', quantitative outcomes such as the numbers going into jobs or gaining qualifications. However, it is often both unlikely and inappropriate for projects to expect to achieve 'hard' outcomes from target groups that are facing multiple barriers to employment. IES was commissioned to look at the use of 'soft', qualitative outcomes on projects funded by the European Social Fund (ESF).

  • Shared Employer Engagement in Practice Report

    Shared Employer Engagement in Practice

    Lessons learned from Restart collaboration

    Kramers E, Allen A, Gloster R, Litsardopoulos N | Jul 2025 | IES

    This report covers research into the value and impact of the Restart employment programme in terms of the prime Restart providers and the employers they support.

  • JobsPlus interim evaluation cover slide

    Webinar recording & slides: JobsPlus interim evaluation findings

    Patel R, Clayton N, Fox A | Nov 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This webinar recording, slides and additional Q&A document cover the IES presentation on the JobsPlus pilot project interim evaluation.

  • ReAct Supply chain case studies

    ReAct innovative practice case studies: use of supply chain partners

    Fox H, Gloster R, Hewitt D and Mason D | Nov 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report covers innovative practices and case studies related to the use of supply chain partners in the Restart programme, focusing on their strengths, challenges, and best practices in delivering employment services.

  • What works in youth employment partnerships

    A guide to improve practice and case study collection

    Orlando C | Jun 2021 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The 'What Works in Youth Employment Partnerships’ guide and case study collection are the first outputs from a three-year Health Foundation-funded project led by IES on improving access to good quality work for young people.

  • Working for the Future: Launch report for the Commission on the Future of Employment Support

    Wilson T, Patel R, Edwards M, Mason B, Muir D | Nov 2022 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report launches a new Commission on the Future of Employment Support, which IES is providing the secretariat for and is being funded by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust.