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  • Labour Market Statistics, November 2023

    Nov 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 14 November 2023.

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    Coaching Early Conversations Interaction and Language (CECIL) Evaluation

    Theory of Change process with CECIL Preston and Nottinghamshire

    Dawson A, Huxley C | Nov 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The goal of the Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) programme is to tackle early gaps in children’s communication and language skills by providing support for high-quality practice in early years settings. This report covers methods, theories of change, findings and future possible research for the evaluation of the CECIL programme in Preston and Nottinghamshire.

  • Fair, equitable pay: impossible ideal or a HR priority we finally need to practise?

    Brown, D | Oct 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    In this new HR Network paper written by IES Principal Associate Dr Duncan Brown we look at the issue of how organisations can implement fairer and more productive reward strategies and practices.

  • Over-50s employment support report

    Over-50s employment support

    Findings from research in the West London Alliance sub-regional partnership

    Bajorek Z, Dewar L, Wilson T | Oct 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report details the experiences of those over 50 accessing skills and employment support services in West London.

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    Flexible Phonics

    A two-armed cluster randomised trial: Evaluation report

    Dawson A, Huxley C, Gray H, Alexander K, Edney C, and Bamford S | Oct 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report covers the Flexible Phonics intervention which aims to help reception class teachers and teaching assistants deliver new strategies designed to optimise the teaching of reading to all reception pupils (aged four to five years).

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    Slides: IES HR Directors' Retreat 2023

    Growing the future workforce

    Wilson T, Foot C, Stevenson R, Clark M, Slattery D | Oct 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    What can and should HR be doing to develop the workforce in the face of a rapidly shifting landscape?

  • Closing the Vocabulary Gap

    Project evaluation report

    Buzzeo J, Muir D, Patel R | Sep 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report presents the findings from a joint evaluation by the Institute for Employment Studies and the Sutton Trust of the Closing the Vocabulary Gap (CVG) project. This evaluation report covers the first two years of delivery up to the end of the 2021/22 academic year.

  • Labour Market Statistics, September 2023

    Sep 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 12 September 2023.

  • Labour Market Statistics, August 2023

    Aug 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 15 August 2023.

  • Meeting Central London's Skill Needs

    A Report for the London Local Skills Improvement Plan

    Williams M, Wilson T, Muir D, Talbot J, Brindle B | Aug 2023 | Central London Forward

    This report sets out the skills needs of employers in central London, and how the skills system could better meet those needs.