Projects and case studies

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  • Developing a Talent Management Strategy with the National Offender Management Service

    Wendy Hirsh supported the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) as it developed its strategy for talent management. NOMS covers both prisons and probation services which have different traditions in how they grow future leaders and diverse...

  • HR Integration and Communication

    Peter Reilly and Wendy Hirsh worked with five councils in West London in a consortium that was jointly funded by the councils themselves and Capital Ambition. The consortium was addressing HR integration and communication - two issues of common...

  • Retention of Black and Minority Ethnic and Female Police Officers

    By 2009, the police service had worked hard to increase the recruitment of Black and minority ethnic (BME) and female officers, and aimed to maximise the retention of such officers. Recent evidence indicated, however, that the rates of voluntary...

  • People Strategies for Business Planning

    The Housing Ombudsman Service asked IES to support their annual business planning process by facilitating the development of the 'people' strand of the five year strategy. This included a review of existing people strategies and policies,...

  • Supporting organisational redesign

    With declining resources and increasing demand, many councils are considering how to reduce costs while preserving key front-line services. The Improvement and Development Agency, together with Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands and...

  • A Coaching Evaluation Toolkit

    IES developed an evaluation toolkit for a national coaching scheme. The aim was to enable the scheme co-ordinators to evaluate at three different levels on an on-going basis: Effectiveness of the coach and the coaching (did the coaching work?);...

  • Developing People Strategy and Leadership

    IES was asked to support the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in developing its people strategy which would reflect and bring to life its corporate vision, values and strategy focusing on enriching people’s lives, but in turn help to...

  • 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...

  • Housing Ombudsman: Building an HR strategy

    For the Housing Ombudsman Service, we were asked to support the annual business planning process by facilitating the development of the people strand of the five year strategy.We undertook this task by:reviewing the organisation's existing people...

  • Workforce Planning Support for DCSF

    The Department for Children, Schools and Families asked IES to provide some support for its workforce planning process. The process involved HR business partners and managers in a detailed dialogue about workforce requirements over the coming year...