Employment and labour market issues
GLE is active in the field of employment and labour
research, playing an important role in shaping development
and informing clients.
The future of community regeneration - February 2007
Community regeneration funding (CRF) provides money for employment, training and enterprise programmes which target groups of people or areas where deprivation is most prevalent. It includes funding streams such as the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, the London Development Agency Area Programme and European Structural Funds. CRF streams are likely to reduce significantly over the next few years, and so this research investigates how they could be made more effective and more efficient in the future.
The final report forms part of a response to the Treasury’s 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), specifically the sub-national review of economic development and regeneration.
Local Strategic Partnerships: Tackling
Worklessness
The 2005 study of Local Strategic Partnerships' work in addressing employment floor targets, comparing the strategies, activities and performance of ten London local authorities, with five comparable local authority districts (in terms of demographics and local economy) elsewhere in the UK.
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Skills in the City: Entry level opportunities in the financial business and services sector
This report examines employment and career development opportunities for non-graduates in London’s financial sector. GLE interviewed employers and employees from more than 40 blue-chip companies in the banking, insurance, legal and accountancy sectors. The report produced a number of recommendations to enhance the relevance of education and training to financial sector employers’ needs, and informed specifications for the current LDA ESF Skills and Employment Programme.
JobCentre Plus: Effectiveness of new programmes and interventions
GLE worked with GHK Consulting to review the effectiveness of two JobCentre Plus initiatives – the Employer Outcome Target programme and the JSA intervention regimes.
Community-led employment support: Global Grants national conference
GLE organised, for the Department of Work and Pensions, a national conference on the innovative Global Grants approach to deploying European Social Funds – providing small scale grants to community organisations working with people furthest from the labour market. As leaders in the field, GLE brought together representatives from across the UK and from EU cities to discuss the achievements and the weaknesses of the new approach.