Research and analysis

Work-Focused Services in Children’s Centres Pilot (RR772)

This report provides findings from the final stage of the evaluation of the ‘work-focused services in children's centres' pilot.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 1 September 2011

Documents

Work-Focused Services in Children’s Centres Pilot: Final Report (RR772): report

Ref: ISBN 978-1-908523-19-8

PDF, 2.7 MB, 110 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email accessible.formats@dwp.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Work-Focused Services in Children’s Centres Pilot: Final Report (RR772): summary

PDF, 601 KB, 4 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email accessible.formats@dwp.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

By Rachel Marangozov and Helen Stevens

This report provides findings from the final stage of the evaluation of the ‘work-focused services in children’s centres’ pilot.

The work-focused services in children’s centres pilot was one of a suite of Child Poverty Pilots announed in 2008. The pilot operated in ten local authority areas (30 Sure Start Children’s Centres in total) in England, providing work-focused services through a dedicated Jobcentre Plus Personal Adviser, as well as activities designed to meet local needs. It ran from January 2009 to March 2011.

The aim of the pilot was to test how children’s centres can offer a more effective means of engaging parents in labour market activity, moving them closer to work, and ultimately into employment.

A mixed methods evaluation was put in place to assess the impacts of the pilot and explore experiences and perceptions of its implementation. The evaluation included surveys of centre users, interviews with parents, staff and stakeholders and analysis of DWP administrative data and data collected specifically for the evaluation. Research was also undertaken in a number of non-pilot children’s centres by means of comparison.

The evaluation was undertaken by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES).

Published 1 September 2011