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  The Central London Works evaluation

  Williams C, Cook J, Wilson T, Alexander K, Buzzeo J, Fox H | Jun 2022 | Institute for Employment Studies

  These reports cover the evaluation of the Central London Works (CLW) which aimed to help individuals who faced barriers to work to find and sustain good quality employment.

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  Supporting the frontline staff of the future: lessons from ReAct

  Kramers E, Gloster R, Krishnan M | Oct 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This briefing paper looks at how the insights from ReAct research can inform the development of the employment support workforce of the future to enable the Get Britain Working ambition in practice.

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  Supporting Highly Qualified Participants: Exploring Routes to Success

  Kramers E, Fox H, Mason D and Mansour J | Feb 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This research explores how highly qualified and experienced participants are supported by Restart, what is working across a range of approaches, and identifies recommendations for improving the quality of service to individuals in this cohort.

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  ReAct innovative practice case studies: supporting ESOL participants

  Campbell B, Clark A, Fox H, Gloster R and Kramers E | Nov 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report presents case studies on innovative practices for supporting English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) participants within the Restart employment support programme.

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  Work in Progress: Interim report of the Commission on the Future of Employment Support

  Campbell B, Dave A, Patel R, Plowden Roberts C, Wilson T | Jul 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report presents findings from the first six months of the Commission’s work, comprising a major Call for Evidence that received around one hundred responses; twenty consultation events, workshops and focus groups; and an extensive review of the literature around ‘what works’ in employment support.

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  Shared employer engagement in practice: what works

  ReAct: collaborating for employers

  Gloster R, Kramers E | Sep 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

  In our second briefing paper, we turn our focus to another Restart collaboration, that of the Prime Provider Network which represents national employer engagement teams from across the Restart providers.

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  Working with participants - lessons from ReAct: focus on neurodiversity

  Bajorek Z and Plowden Roberts C | Nov 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This briefing paper focuses on strategies to support neurodiverse participants into work.

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  Building opportunity

  How social housing can support skills, talent and workforce development

  Alexander K, Evans S, Wilson T | Dec 2022 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report looks at how we can raise employment and address labour market disadvantage for people living in social housing.

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  Supporting Restart participants into self-employment

  Research report

  Buzzeo J, Dave A | Mar 2024 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report covers the ReAct research into support for Restart participants into self-employment and identifies the gaps and improvements that could be made.

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  European Restructuring Monitor Quarterly - 2011, Issue 3

  Hurley J, Riso S, Salvatore L, Rinawi M, Broughton A | Sep 2011 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

  The economic situation continued to be dominated by sovereign debt problems in the eurozone countries. As these continued to remain unresolved, general sentiment had turned negative amid fears of a new second phase of the Great Recession of 2008–9. Growth outlooks in the developed economies had recently been scaled back with below trend growth forecast for 2011–12. Austerity programmes, which had begun to negatively impact public employment, especially in local and central government administrations, had not thus far been accompanied by the hoped-for handover from public to private demand. Within the EU, there were a number of different labour market stories reflecting very different trajectories during and after the 2008–9 crisis. Unemployment in Spain and Ireland continued to rise while other countries severely affected by the crisis – notably the Baltic states – showed signs of a strong recovery. The German unemployment rate was at its lowest level in nearly twenty years (6%) despite a recent easing of growth while the UK unemployment rates were at an eighteen-year high (8.1%). Meanwhile in Greece unemployment had risen by 4 percentage points in the last twelve months.