Employment & Labour
The aim of fuller employment, improved skills and better jobs, especially for socially and economically excluded people, underpins all ECOTEC's research and consultancy work. Through work for major government departments, ECOTEC has helped shape the solution to key policy challenges in this area.
For example, we have recently reported to DWP on methods to improve access to Jobcentre Plus services for people with communication barriers – including people with disabilities and people with English as a second language –groups for whom access to work is key.
ECOTEC has also been supporting DWP in the development of the City Strategy Business Plans, a central element of employment strategy in the pathfinder areas, being rolled out nationally in the near future.
ECOTEC can help you:
- Plan your employment initiatives – especially where this involves improving pathways to employment for economically and socially excluded groups;
- Advise you on best practice with our knowledge of 'what works' from Europe and other parts of the UK;
- Help you plan practical programmes and projects in place to meet national and regional policy;
- Carry out research with vulnerable workers and employers in a sensitive but systematic manner;
- Evaluate your initiatives.
Theme Portfolio: Evaluating the Northern Way employment investment priority
Between 2006 - 08 we are evaluating the 'Bringing More People into Employment' strand of the Government's Northern Way Strategy. Our research involves case study visits and interviews with staff and beneficiaries.
So far, a baseline of incapacity-related worklessness and a review of existing interventions have been completed. These will inform the Northern Way's submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review. It will also help develop a framework for evaluating the individual projects and the programme itself, which will include quantitative and qualitative indicators and impact measures.
ian.atkinson@ecotec.com
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