A workbook focused on achieving successful self-directed support arrangements by fostering a right relationship between people with disability, their families, friends and paid support workers. The guide is structured around seven strategic steps intended to build trust, solve problems and increase the resilience of the person being supported.

This editorial introduces a special journal issue that brings together HRM and social policy perspectives on employer engagement. The authors argue that improving labour market participation among vulnerable groups requires greater attention to employers, their recruitment practices, workplace policies, and organisational decision-making. The article positions employer engagement as a critical bridge between HRM research and...

This report presents findings from a comparative study of employer engagement in active labour market programmes in the UK and Denmark. Overall, employers in both countries were positively disposed towards unemployed candidates but were critical of active labour market programmes, which they considered unsuited to their needs.

In this video, Sean Fisher and his supporters share his journey into paid employment. By starting with Sean’s interests and gift for hospitality and looking at tasks that needed to be completed, Sean was able to find a good match in paid employment. With the encouragement of his co-workers and the guidance of his support...

The Work Programme was introduced in 2011, its aim being to assist long-term unemployed people, young unemployed people and disabled people into work. This report explores employer engagement in the Work Programme and the Youth Contract Wage Incentive.