Research reports
Action for Carers and Employment: An evaluation
This document is the final evaluation report, compiled by the Centre for Social Inclusion in 2005, of the ACE National EQUAL Project that sought to address the barriers faced by carers and former carers in entering, re-entering, or remaining in the labour market.Target Group:
Better than working for a living? Skills and labour in the festivals economy
This report looks at ways of supporting festival-based entrepreneurship among marginal groups in London.Target Group:
Comparative Study of Work Based Discrimination and Equal Opportunities
This publication presents the results of a transnational work group set up to examine the impact of different cultural, legal, organisational and social structures in empowering excluded people in society. The work group, comprising representatives from Equal Development partnerships based in Hungary, France, Czech Republic and United Kingdom, had a specific focus on women and gender discrimination in the workplace.Target Group:
Cultural Shift Academic Research Report
This report represents the participant observations and insights of the research team over the period of two years of the Cultural Shift South East, an Equal-funded Programme that allowed a partnership of organisations to experiment with new forms and processes for addressing labour market inequality through the vehicle of social enterprises.Target Group:
Employing Ex-offenders: The employers perspective
This report outlines the findings of a research project with employer organisations regarding the barriers/perceived barriers to employment experienced by ex-offenders.Target Group:
Employment And Inequality: Closing The Gap And Removing Barriers
This report, conducted in the final phase of the Equal Brighton and Hove project, identifies where there are still gaps in policy and practice,
specifically in tackling barriers to employment and employability faced by the disadvantaged.
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Equalities Resource Pack for community groups in Brighton and Hove
This resource pack is intended as a reference pack. It provides practical resources and support to organisations that wish to include a wider range of people at all levels. It is based on the principle that for regeneration to be successful and sustainable, it must engage and benefit all sections of the community.Target Group:
Evaluation of Exodus Development Partnerships
Exodus was a bi-regional programme to help tackle the long-standing issue of persistently high levels of re-offending and recidivism amongst offenders. This evaluation report brings together the findings of the programme at its conclusion.Target Group:
Exploring Innovative Ways to Support Festival-based Enterprise
This report summarises the activities that have taken place through Celebrating Enterprise run by London City University. It details the rationale for the project and gives a flavour of project activities, partners and lessons learnt.Target Group:
Measuring Distance Travelled in Arts Employability Projects
This research report examines the distance travelled by participants in arts employability projects in terms of soft skills outcomes.Target Group:
Moving Beyond Difference: Mapping, navigating and establishing the needs of the festival sector
This report outlines a mapping exercise carried out on a selection of festivals to capture the experience of organisers, volunteers, traders and artists. The aim was to examine how festivals, particularly those based in the community, have the potential to help individuals and small/medium enterprises find work and develop as businesses.Target Group:
Older Skilled Workers case study
The Equal Knowledge for Innovation Partnership online equal opportunities training modules were trialled at Holt Hosiery Ltd, a small family business with a high proportion of older skilled workers. This research report discusses the results and outcomes.Target Group:
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Setting up and Management of Social Enterprises
This report looks at methods used to set up social enterprises in the UK, Italy, France, Sweden and Spain, in particular the management, accounting and operational methods adopted.Target Group:
Social Enterprise Sector Guides
The Cultural Shift South East Programme produced five social enterprise sector guides to encourage a culture of social entrepreneurship across the public, private and voluntary and community sectors. Sectors covered are: housing associations, rural social enterprise, regeneration, health and social care, markets and the environment.Target Group:
The progress together model was developed in South Yorkshire as a direct result of the work driven forward by the City Strategies in conjunction with Jobcentre Plus and the Learning & Skills Council (LSC). The aim of the model is to provide a seamless journey for the customer from initial engagement to sustainable employment.
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The Right Deal For Homeless People
Developed from lessons learnt from The Tackling Multiple Disadvantage Equal Project, this is a personalised programme for people with multiple barriers to employment, combined with holistic wrap-around support from front-line delivery agencies. This is an important tool in influencing what future services need to do to support those furthest away from the labour market into suitable and sustainable employment.Target Group:
Transnational handbook: the workplace as a learning environment
This research report published in February 2005 was produced to help those who want to emulate the approach taken by the Equal Workforce learning development partnership, either as learning service providers or as employers.Target Group:
Women-Only Sports Coaching Programme: Final Report
The Agender partnership in Birmingham piloted a unique route into sports coaching for unemployed adults (mostly women) by ensuring that the course hours cater for childcare needs, and that all support issues, such as transport, are built into the course structure right from the start. This document is the final report on the programme.Target Group:
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Young Entrepreneurs downloadables
A collection of downloadable content from the project.Target Group:
Young Person's Project briefing paper
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