Reports & briefings
5 August 2024
Evaluation of Youth Employment Service North East
L&W carried out an independent evaluation of Youth Employment Service North East on behalf of Youth Futures Foundation.
1 July 2024
Aiming high: An 80% employment rate and how to deliver it
Stephen Evans, chief executive at Learning and Work Institute, makes the case for an 80% employment rate and how to achieve it.
28 June 2024
New Futures: Nation briefings
These four briefings explore lessons learned from our our New Futures pilots in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, funded by the Covid-19 Support Fund, and offer potential policy options to improve support for career changers.
28 June 2024
New Futures: Four nations policy recommendations
This report draws together insights from our New Futures pilot programme, funded by the Covid-19 Support Fund, and gives recommendations for governments of the four UK nations on how to support career change.
28 June 2024
New Futures pilots evaluation
This evaluation of our New Futures pilot programme, funded by the Covid-19 Support Fund, builds the evidence base for what works in supporting career change.
7 June 2024
Flex and match: a new Skills Levy for growth and opportunity
This report makes the case for broadening the apprenticeship levy into a “flex and match” Skills Levy that would give employers greater flexibility to spend their levy, but only if they also invest in apprenticeships for young people.
27 May 2024
The great skills divide: how learning inequalities risk holding the UK back
The first report in our Ambition Skills programme examines the UK’s qualification profile, projecting it forward to 2035 and comparing against trends for international comparators.
9 May 2024
Evaluation of the Restart Scheme
Learning and Work Institute led this evaluation of Restart in partnership with Ipsos UK. The research aimed to evaluate the success of the Restart Scheme and inform the design of similar programmes in the future.
11 March 2024
ESOL provision in the South East of England: Understanding local capacity
Using funding from the Homes for Ukraine scheme, the South East Strategic Partnership for Migration (SESPM) engaged Learning and Work Institute to deliver an ESOL capacity building programme in the South East of England.
17 January 2024
Enabling better outcomes: a wider view of apprenticeship success
The St Martin’s Group commissioned Learning and Work Institute to explore the barriers apprenticeship employers face, what they can do to help apprentices complete their programmes, and how to define ‘best outcomes’ of apprenticeships.
