Projects and case studies

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  • Skills Priorities and Scenarios in the Justice Sector

    Policing, forensics, courts, prisons, community sentences, fire and rescue. What are the emerging skills needs in these vital services? What is the shape of things to come right across the Justice sector? IES research for Skills for Justice has...

  • A National Strategic Skills Audit

    The UK Commission for Employment and Skills commissioned IES to identify current and emerging skills needs across the English economy, with a particular focus on economic growth sectors, to inform government skills policy. The report considered...

  • Evaluation of the Local Employment Partnerships

    The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) Integrated Employment and Skills Programme Unit (IES PU) asked IES to undertake the main phase of the evaluation of Local Employment...

  • Evaluating the Benefits of the Radiography Imaging Services Accreditation Scheme

    The Imaging Services Accreditation Scheme or ISAS is the outcome of a development project jointly undertaken by Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) and the Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR) over the period from 2006 and 2008, during...

  • Leadership Programme Evaluation

    IES was asked to evaluate Innovations in Healthcare, a leadership programme offered by the NHS Institute and the Radiology Consulting Group, Boston. The programme involves teams who are tackling live issues within a local health economy attending...

  • HR Integration and Communication

    Peter Reilly and Wendy Hirsh worked with five councils in West London in a consortium that was jointly funded by the councils themselves and Capital Ambition. The consortium was addressing HR integration and communication - two issues of common...

  • Worker involvement: evaluating HSE health and safety representative training

    IES was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive to evaluate its training initiatives for employee health and safety representatives, which aimed to increase the number of representatives.In the first instance, we evaluated two pilot...

  • Provision of an Evidence Review on Regulation Cultures and Behaviours

    IES carried out a review for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to investigate ‘what works’ to secure compliance within food business operators. The emphasis of the review was on the types of cultures and behaviours in businesses and enforcement...

  • New Student Support Arrangements: Follow-up to Institutional Case Studies

    The Higher Education Act 2004 led to several key and significant changes in the financial arrangements for full-time undergraduate higher education students - changes to charges or fees and to financial support arrangements - and these continue to...

  • Slips and Trips Accidents in the Workplace

    IES was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to evaluate the impact of the Health and Safety Awareness Officers (HSAO) campaign on Slips and Trips accidents in the workplace. The project gathered information about the work...