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This study was designed to provide a detailed understanding, from a customer and staff perspective, of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), which is used to assess entitlement to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), and Work-Focused Health-Related Assessment (WFHRA).

Customer and staff experiences.......

This report presents findings from a telephone survey (and an accompanying web-survey) of 3,095 new and repeat incapacity benefit customers in the phase one areas of PL Pathways who claimed their benefits between April to June 2008. Interviews were conducted in the period from June to mid
September 2009 (on average 14 months after their claim for benefits).

Provider-led Pathways to Work.....

This report presents findings from qualitative research to explore customer and staff experiences of the trial process for reassessing customers in receipt of Incapacity Benefit (IB), Income Support (IS) paid on the grounds of disability and Severe Disablement Allowance, for the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). This process was trialled in two areas (Aberdeen and Burnley) from October 2010 in advance of national reassessment in 2011.

Trial incapacity benefits reassessment

This report presents the findings of a follow-up telephone survey with 1,842 people who took part in an earlier, baseline face-to-face survey of people claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)1 who had consented to be re-contacted. It was carried out by Ipsos MORI between July and September 2010.
This follow-up survey aimed to explore the progress over time of ESA claimants since the baseline survey – in particular their ongoing experiences of claiming ESA, any changes in their personal and household circumstances, and the subsequent activities of those whose ESA claim ended.

ESA - Findings from a follow-up survey

This is an interim evaluation of a three-year pilot programme designed to test new approaches to tacking chronic social exclusion amongst the most marginalised people in society.

ACE Evaluation - Interim Report

DWP commissioned the WORKSTEP distance travelled project in 2006, in response to recommendations made in the WORKSTEP Programme Evaluation regarding the need to develop measures of Programme quality and ‘in Programme’ performance. In particular the evaluation proposed a need to develop an approach which could monitor the ‘in work’ progression of supported employees, i.e. distance travelled towards open employment.

This report details the findings from the project.

Distance Travelled

This report by Dan Finn reviews international experience of the use of differential payments in job outcome performance-based contracting for employment programmes. The report reviews detailed evidence from countries that have made most extensive use of performance-based contracting, with case studies of Australia, the Netherlands, the USA and Great Britain.

Differential pricing

The work in this report was conducted by the Centre for Disability Research (CeDR) at Lancaster University on behalf of the Department of Health. The aim of the project was to estimate change in the future numbers of adults with profound multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) in England over the period 2009 to 2026.

Estimating Future Numbers of......

This report presents findings from a qualitative research project carried out as part of a wider evaluation of Jobcentre Plus Pathways to Work. The study was conducted in 2008 and 2009 to explore how Jobcentre Plus Pathways to Work may better meet the needs of the heterogeneous mental health client group.

People with mental health conditions and Pathways to Work

The report presents findings from qualitative research carried out in late 2008 to explore experiences of the early implementation of the Provider-led Pathways programme from the perspectives of incapacity benefits recipients, staff of provider organisations, and staff of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Jobcentre Plus.

Experiences and Views of Early Implementation