Projects and case studies

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  • Routes onto Employment and Support Allowance

    This study was carried out for the DWP’s health, work and well-being team. It is complementary to the evaluation of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), but while the ESA evaluation looked at the experience of claiming ESA, the Routes onto ESA...

  • Improving Gender Pay Reporting

    In 2009, average female pay remained stubbornly around 20% behind the average for males. IES conducted research into gender pay reporting on behalf of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The Commission was working to develop the most...

  • Skills Priorities and Scenarios in the Justice Sector

    Policing, forensics, courts, prisons, community sentences, fire and rescue. What are the emerging skills needs in these vital services? What is the shape of things to come right across the Justice sector? IES research for Skills for Justice has...

  • Evaluation of the Local Employment Partnerships

    The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) Integrated Employment and Skills Programme Unit (IES PU) asked IES to undertake the main phase of the evaluation of Local Employment...

  • New Student Support Arrangements: Follow-up to Institutional Case Studies

    The Higher Education Act 2004 led to several key and significant changes in the financial arrangements for full-time undergraduate higher education students - changes to charges or fees and to financial support arrangements - and these continue to...

  • Slips and Trips Accidents in the Workplace

    IES was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to evaluate the impact of the Health and Safety Awareness Officers (HSAO) campaign on Slips and Trips accidents in the workplace. The project gathered information about the work...

  • Worker involvement: evaluating HSE health and safety representative training

    IES was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive to evaluate its training initiatives for employee health and safety representatives, which aimed to increase the number of representatives.In the first instance, we evaluated two pilot...

  • Relocation support

    IES worked with the Health and Safety Executive to evaluate the 'How and Where We Work' Programme, designed to support staff through the move to a single headquarters in Redgrave Court, Bootle. The evaluation was in the form of a case study,...

  • Gender Pay Gap Reporting

    IES worked with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to consider the most appropriate methods and measures that private and third sector employers could use to report voluntarily on gender pay gaps, in support of a clause in the...

  • Ethnic Minority Customers of Jobcentre Plus: Views and Experiences

    The current employment gap between ethnic minorities and the general population stands at 13.8 percentage points. Jobcentre Plus plays a key role in the delivery of PSA 8 'Maximise Employment Opportunity for All' and has its own key objectives...