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Housing providers' approaches to tackling worklessness

This report is the first output of a partnership between Inclusion and the housing action charity, HACT. It captures...

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May 2012

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Inclusion

Building a sustainable quality part-time recruitment market: full report

Inclusion worked in partnership with Women Like Us and Resolution Research to deliver a project for the Joseph Rowntr...

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March 2012

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Hidden Talents: Analysis of fragmentation of services to young people

Inclusion was commissioned by the Local Government Association to 'map' and evaluate the fragmentation in ser...

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January 2012

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Inclusion

Lone parent obligations: work, childcare and the Jobseeker's Allowance regime

Changes to the benefits system for lone parents have been introduced in recent years, with an increasing focus on wor...

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December 2011

Youth unemployment: A million reasons to act?

There is growing consensus that without further action we risk a ‘lost generation’ of young people &...

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November 2011

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Inclusion

Lone parents combining work and welfare: the role of mini jobs and other intervent...

The financial incentives for lone parents in Great Britain to work in jobs of less than 16 hours a week are currently...

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September 2011

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Inclusion

Future Jobs Fund: An independent national evaluation

Seven areas across Great Britain (Tyne and Wear, Durham and Northumberland; Liverpool City Region; Greater Manchester...

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July 2011

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Inclusion

Customer insight into employment support for long-term Incapacity Benefit claimants

Inclusion was commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in partnership with the London Boroughs of...

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June 2011

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Inclusion

Opening up employment for all: the role of assessment in the Work Programme

This report from Inclusion's Think Tank focuses on the vital role that the assessment of new entrants on to the W...

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June 2011

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Inclusion

Integrated employment and skills: maximising the contribution for sustainable empl...

This paper from Inclusion's Think Tank, sponsored by JHP Group, confirms skills development and training as a key...

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June 2011

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Inclusion

Making work pay in London under Universal Credit

Inclusion was commissioned by London Councils to assess the likely impact of Universal Credit in London for a typical...

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June 2011

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Inclusion

Lone parent obligations: supporting the journey into work

Changes to the benefits system for lone parents have been introduced in recent years with an increasing focus on work...

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May 2011

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Department for Work and Pensions

Work, welfare and worklessness: what role for local authorities in a changing land...

This policy paper from Inclusion seeks to inform and contribute to thinking through the Worklessness Community o...

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April 2011

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Inclusion

West London Working evaluation: final report

Inclusion and Roger Tym and Partners were commissioned to evaluate the West London Working programme. Inclusion&...

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March 2011

Assessing the LDA’s labour market programme performance

Inclusion was commissioned to complete a report on the London Development Agency's commissioning of employment an...

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March 2011

Personalising welfare to work: the case for personal welfare budgets

In this paper, Inclusion's Think Tank, supported by the Shaw Trust, presents the case for personal welfare budget...

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February 2011

Making the Work Programme work for people with health conditions: follow-on report...

In order for the government’s new Work Programme to succeed, it must be able to meet the needs of participants...

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January 2011

Employing BELIEF: applying behavioural economics to welfare to work

This report from Inclusion's Think Tank identifies a set of principles which draw upon ‘nudge theory’...

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November 2010

Professionalising the welfare to work industry: developing a framework for action

Inclusion carried out a Personal Advisor survey in association with Flexible New Deal prime providers. The initial pu...

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October 2010

Lone parent obligations: a review of recent evidence on the work-related requireme...

This review of literature on the effect of similar lone parent international policy changes was undertaken with a vie...

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July 2010

Lone parent obligations: early findings of implementation as well as experiences o...

There are an estimated 1.9 million lone parents in Britain caring for 3.1 million children. The United Kingdom g...

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July 2010

Pathways to what? Making the single Work Programme work for people on health-relat...

Inclusion's Think Tank argues that the Work Programme presents an opportunity for the government to ensure t...

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June 2010

Supporting lone parents’ journey off benefits and into work: a qualitative evalu...

Inclusion was commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions to evaluate the delivery of In Work Credit (IWC) s...

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June 2010

Report on the cost-benefit evaluation of the Transitional Spaces project

Inclusion was commissioned by Off the Streets and into Work (OSW) to undertake a contemporaneous evaluation of the Tr...

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March 2010

Evaluation of the Advancement Network Prototypes: second interim report

In partnership with the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) and NICEC, Inclusion was commissioned to undertake an...

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March 2010

Impact of Care to Learn: tracking the destinations of young parents funded in 2006...

The Learning and Skills Council commissioned Inclusion, in partnership with Ipsos MORI, to carry out an evaluation of...

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December 2009

Department for Work and Pensions delivery pipeline: provider view

The aim of this report was to canvas provider interest in government contracting offers and understand how provi...

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November 2009

Time to skill: the Mayor's role in employment and skills in London

In June 2009, Inclusion prepared a report on the London labour market in the recession for the London Assembly's...

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November 2009

London part-time working

Inclusion was commissioned to develop the core marketing messages that would be effective in encouraging SMEs in Lond...

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August 2009

Promoting participation with the historic environment

Inclusion was commissioned by the National Audit Office to carry out three workshops designed to explore the barriers...

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July 2009

Eradicating child poverty: the role of of key policy areas

Inclusion was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to write an essay on the possible extent to which tackli...

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November 2008

The British welfare market: lessons from contracting out welfare to work programme...

The government is committed to contracting out the delivery of welfare to work programmes and paying providers for ge...

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November 2008

Testing NICE draft guidance: managing long-term sickness absence and incapacity to...

Inclusion conducted fieldwork to test the National Institute for Clinical Excellence's (NICE) guidance for the ma...

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October 2008

Benefits and work support schemes to meet the needs of people with autistic spectr...

Inclusion was commissioned by the National Audit Office (NAO) to investigate the degree to which the Department for W...

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October 2008

Impact of learning on employability in London: main report

Inclusion was commissioned by the Learning and Skills Council to carry out data analysis of 2,679 learners who attend...

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August 2008

Impact of learning on employability in the West Midlands city region

Inclusion was commissioned by the Learning and Skills Council to carry out data analysis of over 1,000 learners livin...

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July 2008

Problems in the delivery of benefits, tax credits and employment services

Inclusion was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to deliver a piece of work to their Poverty and Disadvan...

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June 2008

Worklessness: a city approach

Inclusion was commissioned by the Centre for Cities to write an essay on worklessness in cities, as a part of a serie...

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June 2008

Increasing employment for ethnic minorities

Inclusion was commissioned by the National Audit Office to examine how ethnic minority employment in the UK can be in...

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May 2008

Impact of learning on employability: main report

Working with the British Market Research Bureau and the Institute for Employment Studies, Inclusion examined the impa...

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January 2008

Evaluation of year two of the of the Skills Coaching and Skills Passports trial: f...

Working with the Institute for Employment Studies, Inclusion evaluated year two of the Skills Coaching Trials and Ski...

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December 2007

Sustainable employment: supporting people to stay in work and advance

Inclusion was commissioned by the National Audit Office (NAO) to provide context for their value for money studies on...

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November 2007

Working Future evaluation

Working Future was a project which aimed to increase employment levels among homeless families in temporary Private S...

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November 2007

European research study into homelessness and employment

Inclusion completed an explorative research study for Off the Streets and into Work (OSW) which looked at homelessnes...

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September 2007

Contracting out welfare to work in the USA: delivery lessons

Inclusion carried out a review of the literature on the contracting out of welfare to work services in the USA, with...

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September 2007

Migrant workers in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and the Humber

This project was undertaken with in association with Experian Business Strategies for the Learning and Skills Council...

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August 2007

Understanding why people return to the New Deals in Northern Ireland

The aim of this research was to provide a better understanding of the reasons why some people return to the New Deal...

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June 2007

Reaching out: think family

Inclusion was commissioned by the Social Exclusion Taskforce (SETF) to carry out research to help them establish what...

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June 2007

Tackling worklessness and child poverty in London: mapping central, regional and l...

The Mayor of London, appointed Inclusion on behalf of the London Child Poverty Commission to map central, region...

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March 2007

Closing the opportunity gap programme: phase one evaluation

Inclusion, in partnership with the Scottish Poverty Information Unit, was commissioned by the Scottish Government to...

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January 2007

Understanding young people in jobs without training

Inclusion undertook this research to inform the implementation of the Learning Agreement pilots which were introduced...

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April 2006

Evaluation of StepUP pilot: final report

Inclusion was commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions to carry out a three year evaluation of this natio...

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March 2006

Building better connections: inter-agency work and the Connexions service

Inclusion, in partnership with the University of York, conducted a detailed research study to explore inter-agency wo...

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November 2004

Financial support for 16-19 year olds: summary

The Department for Work and Pensions commissioned Inclusion to carry out a programme of international comparative res...

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January 2004

Intermediate Labour Markets in Britain and an international review of transitional...

Inclusion was commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions to carry out an international systematic review of...

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November 2003

The use of contestability and flexibility in the delivery of welfare services in A...

The Department for Work and Pensions commissioned Inclusion to carry out a programme of international comparative res...

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October 2003

Making work pay in London

Commissioned by the Mayor of London, the London Development Agency and the Association of London Government, this rep...

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October 2003