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Friday 12 March 2010

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Completed projects

Below is a selection of our completed projects on employment and skills, child poverty, equality and diversity, improving partnerships, credit, debt and financial inclusion, and vulnerable and excluded groups.

Find out about our current projects here.


Employment and skills

Contracting out welfare to work in the USA: delivery lessons - Department for Work and Pensions

Inclusion carried out a review of the literature on the contracting out of welfare to work services in the USA, with a particular focus on the experience of Wisconsin and New York City.

Policy Commentary - UK Commission for Employment and Skills

The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) commissioned Inclusion and the Institute for Employment Studies to conduct a policy review and commentary on employment and skills developments in the UK.

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Child poverty

Can work eradicate child poverty? - Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Inclusion was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to write an essay on the possible extent to which tackling worklessness can contribute to the eradication of child poverty by 2020.

Children in Low Income Families Indicators - End Child Poverty

Inclusion, working with Donald Hirsch, an independent consultant, provided End Child Poverty with child poverty measures using tax credit data, which gave the percentage of children on low incomes in local authorities and constituencies across the UK, as well as the more local ward level.

Read more about projects related to child poverty


Equality and diversity

Engagement in heritage by currently under-represented groups - National Audit Office

Inclusion was commissioned by the National Audit Office to carry out a three workshops designed to explore the barriers to engaging with the heritage sector experienced by black and minority ethnic groups, lower socio-economic groups and people with disabilities.

Ethnic Minority Employment - National Audit Office

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

Read more about projects related to equality and diversity


Improving partnerships

Tackling Worklessness: the contribution and role of local authorities and partnerships - Communities and Local Government

Stephen Houghton's Tackling Worklessness Review contained the review team's thinking on how successful multi-agency and cross-sector local partnerships could best tackle worklessness in their communities. Inclusion was involved in assisting the review team in writing its report.

An employment and skills strategy for the London Borough of Wandsworth - Wandsworth Council

Inclusion was commissioned to help Wandsworth Council develop its employment and skills strategy and define targets.

Read more about projects related to improving partnerships.


Credit, debt and financial inclusion

A review of coping strategies employed by households in fuel poverty - Energywatch
Inclusion conducted a literature review of current studies that have examined the budgetary and behavioural strategies that vulnerable fuel poor households employ to cope with fuel poverty and the effects these have on welfare.

Trade unions and response to overindebtedness - International Labour Organisation

Inclusion was commissioned by the ILO to produce a report describing and evaluating the involvement of British trade unions in protecting organised and unorganised workers against overindebtedness.

Read more about projects related to credit, debt and financial inclusion.


Vulnerable and excluded groups

Benefits and work support schemes to meet the needs of people with autistic spectrum disorder - National Audit Office

Inclusion was commissioned by the National Audit Office to investigate the degree to which Department for Work and Pensions benefits and employment support schemes meet the needs of individuals with an autistic spectrum disorder and their carers.

Vulnerable groups workshops - Consumer Council for Water

Inclusion delivered a workshop for the Consumer Council for Water's policy officers to help identify ways in which the council can forge links with other provision that targets vulnerable households and raise the performance of water services in meeting the needs of these customers.

Read more about projects related to vulnerable and excluded groups

For more information, please contact Jo Casebourne.