Projects and case studies
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Evaluation of the Apprenticeship Trailblazers
The Apprenticeship Trailblazers were introduced as a means of addressing recommendations from the Richard Review (2012), that employers are ‘best placed to judge the quality and relevance of training and demand the highest possible standards...
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Developing effective business operations for LSIS
IES supported LSIS to establish a common understanding of what it means for a provider to be effective across all aspects of its business and operations, ie both in terms of it's own management and business processes and its delivery. The project...
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Family Nurse workforce survey
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme is well established in the USA, where there is a body of evidence to demonstrate its success. Family Nurses work with disadvantaged families, specifically during pregnancy and the child's first two...
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Review of the Jobcentre Plus Integrated Children's Centre Adviser project
This pilot has operated over two years in four sites across Wales. Jobcentre Plus advisers working within children’s centres and in partnership with Communities First networks have aimed to reach out and support those furthest away from the labour...
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Qualitative post-test on the European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER)
The European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER) is a pan-European survey of management and worker representatives in enterprises with more than ten employees on how health, safety and well-being are managed at work. This...
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Research on the role of temporary agency work in facilitating transitions in the labour market
IES worked as a partner on an international research project, co-ordinated by Wilke, Maack and Partner in Germany, examining the role of temporary agency work and its potential contribution to transitions in the labour market. IES carried out...
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Evaluation of Apprenticeship Grant for Employers of 16 to 24 year olds
At a point when youth unemployment was a particular challenge, the Apprenticeship Grant for Employment was designed to make a significant contribution to ameliorating this problem, with potentially major savings to the long-term social...
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Ex-post evaluation of the ESENER survey
The European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER) is a pan-European survey of enterprises across 31 countries and is focussed on exploring management practice and policy with regard to managing health and safety risks at work....
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Perspectives of the European Land Armament Sector
The main aim of this study, for the European Metalworkers Federation, was to examine the medium and long-term business, industrial and employment perspectives of the European land armament sector. It collected state-of-the-art information,...
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Comparative Analytical Report on the impact of the crisis on industrial relations
Eurofound commissioned IES to coordinate a comparative analytical report on the impact of the crisis on industrial relations in the EU27 Member States. The study looked at impacts on the social partners, and processes such as collective bargaining...