Knowledge Base

Jersey Employment Trust has undertaken a full service review, carried out by Dr Mark Kilsby, Julie Allan and Dr Steve Beyer. The review found outstanding practice across both the employment team and the training and development team.

The team now supports 270 people in paid jobs, many of them seasonal, working an average of 24 hours/week. The team has become a preferred supplier of staffing for many local employers.

Job carving and job crafting can be effective strategies to overcome the challenges of labour market integration of people facing multiple barriers, in particular the long-term unemployed. This paper gives an overview of these strategies, presents promising practices and sets out recommendations for future measures, also in the context of ESF interventions.

The American Psychiatric Association has published the results of a longitudinal survey into the provision of IPS services in the USA.

The Foundation for People with a Learning Disability has produced an employers guide to employing people with a learning disability. The guide, produced in conjunction with Keith Bates and Sixteen, offers tips and case studies featuring the work of a range of large employers.

Accompanying it is a short guide to working with job coaches.