The Work Programme is a new payment-for-results welfare-to-work scheme that was launched in June 2011. This document from the department for Work and Pensions describes how the Programme was designed to overcome the weaknesses of previous initiatives for getting people back to work.
This framework for supporting personal assistants working in adult social care is part of the process to make it easier for people with disabilities to employ Personal Assistants.
The provision of personal budgets for all eligible people will mean personal assistants, directly employed by people who use care and support services, working in new, creative and person-centred ways to play an increasingly important role in providing tailored support to meet individual needs. This document provides a framework for supporting the development of the PA workforce and their employers over the next five years and beyond.
The Government’s Champion for Active Safer Communities has set out her top priorities to help people make a difference to their neighbourhoods. In this report, Baroness Newlove pinpoints the availability of easy to access online information, a new drive for public sector volunteering and the tackling of binge and underage drinking, as key to achieving her goals.
The Department for Work and Pensions has been working with local authorities, Jobcentre Plus and local partners in five places to develop Co-Design Pilots, testing new solutions in tackling worklessness. The pilots – Birmingham, Bradford, Lewisham, South Tyneside and Swindon – have adopted customer-centred approaches to achieving better outcomes at less cost. Four out of the five are Community Budget areas.
The Government has put behaviour change or ‘nudge’ techniques at the forefront of its public service reform agenda. A report by localism think tank the New Local Government Network illustrates that councils must identify and harness the energy of their most active citizens to help improve services, engage communities and save money.
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This report from the 2020 Public Sector Hub at the RSA was commissioned by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service. It challenges the sector to shape and create a radical future.
The last thirty five years has seen the transformation of housing associations from a relatively small, diverse sub-sector of civil society into a large highly capitalised social business, in what has been described as “the outstanding example of a mass take-over of state services by the voluntary sector in our time”.
This report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development delves deep into the issue of employee engagement. It acknowledges that employee engagement is an important driver of sustainable organisation performance, but goes further by exploring ‘what’ employees engage with and ‘where’ in the organisation their focus of engagement is located, or what is their ‘locus of engagement’.
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This report from DWP presents the findings of research into the way work is viewed by the unemployed. The interviewees were segmented by their attitudes and beliefs.
The overwhelming majority of interviewees definitely want to or would prefer to be in work in the next three months. But beneath this view there were different attitudes.
The government’s Champion for Active Safer Communities, Baroness Newlove, has detailed what residents, businesses, local agencies and central government can do to begin a generational shift in the country’s approach to activism and tackling neighbourhood crime.
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