Employment and skills: current projects

The Learning and Skills Council has commissioned Inclusion, in partnership with the Institute for Employment Studies and NICEC, to undertake the evaluation of the advancement network prototypes.

Inclusion was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to examine the extent to which employment gaps between groups and between areas have changed in each of the devolved nations.

Inclusion is working with the Newhaven Community Development Association to develop, test and deliver innovative active inclusion measures to integrate disadvantaged groups into the labour market

In partnership with the Centre for Public Policy, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and NatCen, Inclusion is undertaking an evaluation of the changes to the obligations on lone parents who claim benefit.

St Mungo's has commissioned Inclusion to undertake a contemporaneous evaluation of Pathways to Employment Model, a programme to support homeless people to move into work.

The ultimate aim of the pilot evaluation is to determine whether a new measure, referred to as 'off flows potentially to employment', is a useful tool to manage Jobcentre Plus job-broking performance.

Inclusion has been commissioned by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills to undertake a review of the eligibility criteria for employment and skills support in the UK.

The North West Development Agency commissioned Inclusion, in partnership with Experian, to examine the extent to which the black and minority ethnic population is under-employed and under-skilled.

This project evaluated the London Borough of Hackney 'Ways into Work' city strategy pathfinder and made recommendations for its successor programme.