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Reports & briefings

1 June 2019

The Step Up Pilot: Year 3 Extension

The Step Up pilot was designed by Learning and Work Institute, Trust for London and the Walcot Foundation to test new approaches to supporting low paid workers to progress. This evaluation explores the impact of the programme.

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1 April 2019

Engaging Young Adult Carers – Targeted support for colleges

Delivered between April 2017 and March 2018, Learning and Work Institute’s Support for Colleges project provided targeted one-to-one support for six colleges throughout England to enable them to develop an effective and embedded whole organisational approach to working with young adult carers.

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1 April 2019

Solent Jobs Programme Evaluation

Our final evaluation report on the Solent Jobs Programme, which aimed to provide employment-related support to at least 1,200 long term workless adults with disabilities and health conditions across the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership area.

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28 March 2019

Resources to support the development of local ESOL partnerships

Commissioned by the Department for Education, Learning and Work Institute developed new resources which encourage collaborative working and support local areas looking to develop ESOL local partnerships.

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27 March 2019

Time for action: learning and skills for economic growth and social justice

The UK’s skills base has long lagged that of comparator countries and over the last decade the rate of improvement in the UK’s skills base has stalled.

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21 March 2019

Pre-entry ESOL – a factsheet for the South East region

This resource has been designed for resettlement coordinators and other individuals involved in the refugee resettlement process.

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21 March 2019

Progressing resettled refugees into employment

This guide is for agencies in the South East (SE) region who are involved in supporting the resettlement of refugees through the government resettlement schemes.

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11 March 2019

Social metrics: Measuring the outcomes of non-accredited learning

This report sets out the results of work undertaken by Learning and Work Institute in 2017/18 to develop and test the use of social metrics in Adult Community Learning provision to capture a range of wider outcomes of learning.

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4 March 2019

Resources to support care leavers into apprenticeships

Our resources are aimed at encouraging employers to take on care leavers as apprentices and to raise awareness of the funding available to help.

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5 January 2019

Employment & Support Allowance: Evaluation of pilots to support Work-Related Activity Group customers

This report presents findings from the evaluation of pilots to support ESA (Employment and Support Allowance) WRAG (Work-Related Activity Group) customers with an 18 to 24 month re-referral or ‘prognosis’ period.

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