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How is support and conditionality best delivered and by whom? This includes the role of different stakeholders including DWP, local authorities and the private and voluntary sector and the interaction between them.

Background

We want to better understand how and why the labour market is changing and the implications for the number and types of people who need different support. We would like to improve our understanding of what determines the transitions people make between welfare and work and how DWP can support people to progress in work. We want to learn more about what works for whom, when, where, why, and under what circumstances. We would like to develop a richer picture of how disadvantages and barriers combine, reinforce each other, and manifest themselves throughout someone’s life, and how this affects their opportunities and outcomes.

Next steps

Send correspondence and further questions to evidence.strategyteam@dwp.gov.uk.

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

DWP Areas of Research Interest 2019 GOVUK

Related UKRI funded projects

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    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on the role of different stakeholders, including DWP, local authorities, and the private and voluntary sector, in delivering support and conditionality.

  • A sociological investigation of underemployment and the lived experiences of underemployed workers

    This project will address one of the most important issues facing society: the increase in underemployed, vulnerable workers resulting from industrial changes, the 2008 recession, and the Covid-19 pandemic. How we work i...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Bristol

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses the role of different stakeholders, including DWP, local authorities, and the private and voluntary sector, in delivering support and conditionality, but it focuses more on the lived experiences of underemployed workers.

  • Getting Britain back to work Post COVID - Expanding the Grand Challenges

    Prosper 4 Group, an innovative UK social enterprise, is aiming to get thousands of unemployed marginalised people into work, and using digital technology to do this. We are all about inclusion and creating opportunity. ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: PROSPER 4 GROUP LIMITED

  • Encouraging the unemployed into sustained work: experimental evidence from the UK and the US

    In seeking to increase the employment rate in the UK, labour market policy has traditionally focused on encouraging employment entry. However, many people who leave benefit enter poorly-paid, insecure employment and befo...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: National Institute of Economic and Social Research

  • MICA: Supporting Older People into Employment (SOPIE): Identifying factors influencing return to work in the over 50s.

    This research will be undertaken by a unique partnership between Ingeus, a welfare-to-work provider, and an academic team led by the University of Glasgow and will study the Ingeus workless clients including those with h...

    Funded by: MRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow

  • Welfare integration, labour supply and take-up

    Context Benefits systems are crucial in protecting families and individuals from deprivation, supporting those with health conditions, and reducing inequality, as the covid-19 crisis underlines. As in many other countri...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Institute for Fiscal Studies

  • Universal Credit and Employers: exploring the demand side of UK active labour market policy

    Research context: Active labour market policies (ALMPs) are government interventions traditionally focused on moving unemployed people into work. As those ultimately in control of the employment opportunities participant...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Manchester Metropolitan University

  • Risks, Resources and Inequalities: Increasing Resilience in European Families

    The problem that rEUsilience tackles is of lack of adaptive capacities or resilience in some families. The context is of fast-paced changes in labour markets to which families are key responsive mechanisms, cushioning po...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

  • Identifying sustainable pathways out of in-work poverty

    Summary In a time of austerity and low economic growth the challenges faced by low-waged workers in earning enough to support themselves and their families to achieve a socially acceptable standard of living are immense...

    Funded by: ESRC

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  • Intergenerational worklessness in an international context: the role of labour markets, welfare systems and education

    Intergenerational worklessness, the association in workless spells across generations, is a new and important topic of increasing interest in academia, political circles and the public domain. The research fits well with...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University College London

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially relevant as it focuses on intergenerational worklessness and labour market factors, but does not directly address support and conditionality delivery.

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