JobsPlus is a community-led employment scheme that aims to help people into work through on-site employment services, community support, and financial incentives. Led by Learning and Work Institute, the programme is being piloted in England with funding from the Department for Work and Pensions and from Youth Futures Foundation. The ten pilots build on the foundational work outlined below. Find out more.


From 2016-2018, Learning and Work Institute worked with 19 social landlords across Britain – brought together by Give us a Chance – to develop these proposals. They build on the highly successful Jobs-Plus model implemented in the United States since the late 1990s.

This paper sets out proposals for the detailed design of a Jobs-Plus prototype. The scoping work has been underpinned by in-depth interviews, workshops and site visits with the landlords supporting this work and wider partners; as well as independent assessment of the feasibility of robustly evaluating Jobs-Plus, and detailed modelling of the costs of taking this forward.

10 July 2026

Building trust before jobs: supporting NEET young people in East Finchley 

Andrew Potter, Project Manager of the JobsPlus pilot in East Finchley, outlines a different approach to supporting young people into employment and training.

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29 June 2026

What enables the effective design, delivery and evaluation of local work and health programmes?

This report presents findings from an evidence review on what enables the effective design, delivery and evaluation of local health and work programmes.

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29 June 2026

Scoping report: Labour Market Evidence Programme

This scoping report as part of the Labour Market Evidence programme provides a summary of the work undertaken by IES and L&W between October 2025 and March 2026 including user consultation. It summarises the evidence needs of local policy makers and sets out how these needs can be addressed.

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18 June 2026

Labour Market Briefing: June 2026

Our analysis of the ONS labour market statistics, released on the morning of 18 June 2026.

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18 June 2026

Labour market stats response, June 2026

L&W’s chief executive Stephen Evans responds to the latest labour market data from ONS.

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17 June 2026

Evaluation of Central London Forward’s Youth Guarantee Trailblazer 

Learning and Work Institute has evaluated the first year of delivery of Full Potential, the Youth Guarantee Trailblazer delivered by Central London Forward.

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9 June 2026

Innovative, “hyper-local” approach to employment support completes two years

An innovative employment support pilot spanning Medway to Merseyside has shown promise reaching social housing residents who are out of work but do not typically access mainstream support.

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9 June 2026

Final report: Evaluation of the JobsPlus Pilot

This evaluation of JobsPlus builds on the interim findings published in September 2025 to provide evidence on whether the model can be adapted to the UK context and effectively implemented to improve employment outcomes.  

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28 May 2026

Responding to the interim report of the Milburn review

L&W chief executive Stephen Evans responds to the interim report from the Milburn review on Thursday 28 May 2026.

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