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  Evaluation of Year 2 of the Skills Coaching Trials and Skills Passports

  Page R, Casebourne J, Mason D, Tuohy S | Nov 2007 | Learning and Skills Council

  In partnership with the Centre for Social and Economic Inclusion, IES evaluated Skills Coaching, a careers and coaching service for out of work adults. The evaluation involved: case-studies in nine of the areas running Skills Coaching trials; a review of literature on employability and employment and skills policy; an analysis of the pilots’ management information; and an assessment of the cost of delivering the service.

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  The Recession

  Policy and employer responses

  Usher T, Dewson S, Cox A | Nov 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This paper examines the impact of recession on the labour market through three lenses: Firstly, it presents a summary of the key evidence to date on redundancies and employment decline in the UK, with international comparisons, identifying which labour market groups and geographical areas have been most affected. Secondly, it reviews and assesses the government policy response, focused on initiatives to support employment. Thirdly, it reviews employer responses to recession (action which affects current employees, and their plans for the future), and questions the level of employer engagement with government policy.

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  The New Deal Gateway: A Labour Market Assessment

  Walsh K, Atkinson J, Barry J | Apr 1999 | Employment Service

  This is a short, focused study examining the issues behind the coexistence of notified vacancies and unemployed young people on New Deal's Gateway in the Birmingham labour market. This publication is no longer available.

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  The New Deal for Young Unemployed People: A Summary of Progress

  Atkinson J | Jan 1999 | Employment Service

  The New Deal for young unemployed people was a key element in the Government's Welfare to Work strategy. It aimed to help young people who had been unemployed and claiming Jobseeker's Allowance for six months or more to find work and to improve their longer term employability. This report summarises the development of the programme in November 1998, eight months after its national roll-out. This publication is no longer available.

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  Understanding Worklessness in Newham: Final Report

  Sissons P, Dewson S, Martin R, Carta E | Sep 2010 | London Borough of Newham

  The London Borough of Newham commissioned an analysis of worklessness within the borough with a particular focus on understanding those who had been out of the labour market for long periods of time, and those who had never worked. The research involved a literature review, analysis of secondary datasets to provide an overview of the scale and characteristics of worklessness locally, and qualitative interviews with a range of people, including stakeholders providing services to workless groups and workless individuals in the borough.

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  Activity Agreement Pilots - trialling different approaches to re-engaging young people not in education, employment or training (NEET)

  Evaluation of the 2009-10 extension

  Maguire S, Newton B, with Fearn H, Oakley J, Williams C, Miller L, Levesley T | Feb 2011 | Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)

  Activity Agreements (AA) were piloted in eight areas of England between April 2006 and March 2011 and were designed to help re-engage young people (aged 16 or 17) not in employment, education or training (NEET). This report evaluates the final 12-month extended period of these pilots (known as Pilot 3).

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  Long-term Evaluation of Self-employment Assistance Provided by the Prince's Trust

  Initial Findings

  Meager N, Bates P, Cowling M | Jul 2001 | Department for Education and Skills

  This report contains initial findings from a three-year study, following a sample of young people (aged 18-30) receiving business start-up support from The Prince's Trust. The study aimed to identify the wider benefits of such support, in comparison with other labour market interventions and, in particular, to look at the impact of such programmes on longer-term employability.

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  Employers and the New Deal for Disabled People - Qualitative Research, First Wave

  Aston J, Atkinson J, Evans C, Davis S, O'Regan S | Feb 2003 | Department for Work and Pensions

  This publication is no longer available. This report contributed to the national evaluation of the New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP). It sets out the first results from research on employer awareness of, and involvement with NDDP. Other linked studies contributed evidence on other stakeholders, particularly customers of the programme and the job brokers delivering it.

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  Evaluation of Jobcentre Plus Advisory Services in Integrated Children's Centres in Communities First Areas

  Foley B, Stevens H, Newton B | Oct 2012 | Welsh Government

  The Welsh Government (WG) commissioned the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) to lead a review of its pilot which introduced Jobcentre Plus-led Advisory services into Integrated Children’s Centres in Communities First (CF) areas. The pilot was known as the Employment Services in Integrated Children’s Centres (ESICC). The project was co-funded by Communities First and Jobcentre Plus (JCP). IES had experience of evaluating the Work-Focused Services in the Children’s Centres Pilot in England. This report comprises findings from the evaluation to provide information to the Welsh Government (WG) on the progress and achievements of the ESICC pilot.

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  Work Programme Evaluation: the participant experience report

  Meager N, Newton B, Sainsbury R, Corden A, Irvine A | Dec 2014 | Department for Work and Pensions

  This report brings together and summarises the main evidence from the different strands of the Work Programme evaluation about the experience of participants. The evaluation tracks the Work Programme over several years from its introduction in 2011. This report notes changes in participants’ experiences and perceptions of the programme during this period.