research

This research examines the introduction, implementation and organisation of local employment partnerships at national, district and local levels. It aimed to explore the successful elements of LEPs, to ascertain why employers had engaged with the partnerships and what they had gained from doing so.

Remploy has published a paper on career advancement. Historically welfare to work policies have concentrated on job placement, however, recent UK government policy has seen a shifting of focus towards sustainable job outcomes where sustainability may only be recognised two years after being placed in work.

The Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities has published a research report that examines the role of supported employment agencies in promoting the health of people with learning disabilities in real jobs.

This review sought to identify the common barriers to the effective implementation of new initiatives and elements of effective practice in the delivery of multi-agency services for vulnerable young people and their families.

Building on the HM Treasury and Department for Communities and Local Government led initiative Total Place, the Department for Work and Pensions is working with five local authorities to investigate how to further work together to co-design solutions to local issues of worklessness.

This publication gives information on the provider-led Pathways to Work initiative, aimed at improving opportunities for people on incapacity benefits.

ippr is looking for innovative and good practice examples of different models that promote job sustainability and advancement in work.

Welfare to work debates have moved on from 'job entry' to recognise the importance of wider social goals such as reducing poverty, ensuring long term financial stability, and improving social mobility. Yet the current job market presents a challenge to whether people are able to sustain work and progress, with fewer jobs, widespread wage freezes and an increase in part time and temporary work.

The latest report from the Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion Think Tank asserts that, for the government’s new Work Programme to succeed, it must be able to meet the needs of participants with health conditions and/or disabilities.

Compass, the leftwing campaign group, is claiming in a recent publication that up to 500,000 people have been wrongly judged fit for work and disallowed incapacity benefit over the past 15 years.