Projects and case studies

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  • Evaluation of Activity Agreements Pilots

    In 2006, the government launched two new pilot policies aimed at attracting disengaged young people back into learning: Activity Agreements (AA), aimed at 16-17 year olds not in education, employment or training (NEET) for 20 continuous weeks, and...

  • Compliance with the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act (1969)

    IES was commissioned by the HSE to conduct research into the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act (1969). This Act requires all employers (except those in the public sector and those employing close relatives only) to purchase employers...

  • Disability Discrimination Act: Impact of 2005 Changes on Organisations

    The Office for Disability Issues commissioned IES to undertake follow-up research to the 2003 and 2006 surveys of organisations to see how they have responded to disability discrimination legislation. Earlier research explored how employers, goods...

  • 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...

  • Fairness at Work Seminars

    IES is collaborating with the Universities of Manchester and Brighton to hold a series of seminars on fairness at work funded by the ESRC. IES will host one of six seminars scheduled to run in 2010-11 covering themes including pay, diversity,...

  • 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...

  • Impact and Cost-effectiveness of Consultant Radiographer Posts

    The Scope of Practice 2008 project recommended that the College of Radiographers commission an independent evaluation of the impact of implementation of consultant, advanced practitioner and assistant practitioner roles, in order to assess the...

  • Increasing the Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Employment

    IES worked for MigrationWork to support the European Commission’s learning network, IMPART (Increasing the Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Employment).IMPART aims to help the European Commission understand how ESF funding can be...

  • Testing the Link Between Educational System and Recruitment Practice

    The German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) tasked partners from the UK (IES), Finland (Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, University of Turku) and Spain (IKEI Research and Consultancy) with a feasibility...

  • 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...