Projects and case studies
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Qualitative research of the Intensive Activity Programme
The Institute worked with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to evaluate the impact of a trial to provide intensive support for Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants during the first few weeks of their claim. DWP ran a randomised controlled trial...
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Understanding the Customer Journey to Initial Teacher Training
This study for the National College of Teaching and Leadership used qualitative techniques to understand why individuals made the choices they did about teaching as a potential career.The work was conducted with individuals at different...
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Updating the ILO's YouthPOL database with youth employment policies in selected EU countries
IES has been commissioned by the ILO to collect and analyse a series of legislative and policy documents relating to youth employment in a selection of EU countries, for inclusion in the ILO YouthPOL database. The YouthPOL database is ILO's global...
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Evaluation of the Right to Request Time to Train
Employees in organisations with at least 250 employees have a statutory right to request time off work to undertake training. In 2011 it was decided, after consultation, not to extend the right to all employees but to review the decision in 2015,...
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Evaluation of the new Jobcentre Plus approach to providing support for 16-17 year olds
Jobcentre Plus (JCP), in partnership with local authorities (LAs), implemented a new approach to providing support for 16-17 year olds not in education, employment or training (NEET) and not in receipt of an income-based benefit.The approach...
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Evaluation of the Fit for Work service
In 2015 the DWP launched the Fit for Work service to provide occupational health assessment and health and work advice to employees, employers and GPs in order to help employees return to or stay in work after a long-term (over four-week...
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Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER)
From 2015 to 2017, IES was part of a consortium of four partner institutions, funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), delivering a multi-year programme on vocational education in the UK. The aim of the Centre for...
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Research on the 2014 European Directive on the Enforcement of the Posted Workers Directive
IES has been commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to carry out qualitative research to help the government assess the likely impact of the 2014 European Directive on the Enforcement of the Posted Workers on...
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Improving the HR and OD capability in shared councils, for the Local Government Association
At the time of this project 43 district councils in England shared a chief executive with one or more other councils, and displayed various levels of service integration. Such activity is vital to delivering the government's aims of greater...
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Research into the ESA Claimant Trials
IES was commissioned, with SPRU at the University of York, to lead qualitative research into ESA claimants' experience of three new trials designed to move participants closer to the labour market – Voluntary Early Intervention (VEI),...