How can careers advice and employment support best complement each other to improve labour market outcomes?
Background
Improving employment outcomes is central to DWP’s role in supporting opportunity, financial security and economic growth. Understanding what works, for whom and in what contexts, alongside emerging trends is essential. We want to understand how to support people to enter work, remain in work, progress in work and access the skills, training and support they need across life stages, careers and local labour markets. Understanding the barriers to, and enablers of, entering employment, sustaining employment, and in-work progression across our priority groups is central to this, alongside explaining how interactions between services across the wider support system shape outcomes. This is particularly important in the context of the increasing devolution of employment support to regional and local government (which the DWP and ESRC-funded 'What Works Centre for Local Employment Support' in particular is intended to support).
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Research fields
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Project Visum
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Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: FOURWHO LTD
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Partially relevant as it focuses on career management app but does not directly address how careers advice and employment support can complement each other.
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Displaced employee and employer assessment and onboarding tool
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Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: MINDMILL (HR) SOFTWARE LIMITED
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it provides a tool for displaced workers but does not directly address how careers advice and employment support can complement each other.
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Skills and Employment Survey 2023: Continuity and Change
SES2023 will be the eighth in a series of surveys of workers stretching back over 35 years. The OECD has stated that 'there is a strong policy need for better measures of job quality' to improve workers' well-being, incr...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on a survey on job quality but does not directly address how careers advice and employment support can complement each other.