This report examines employment support services in the United Kingdom which help people find work. It recommends introducing a new system, the Universal Work Service, which would offer integrated employment support, skills and careers advice services.

This evaluation was of a behavioral insights driven soft skills training program designed to maintain and build the psychological work readiness of highly disadvantaged job seekers. The evaluation found the training to be highly effective and made a number of recommendations to inform future programs.

Empowering YOUth Initiatives was an employment program for young people aged 15 to 24 years who were long-term unemployed. This report summarises learnings that were common across the individual program initiatives, summarising learnings into four themes: activities delivered, the delivery process, specific intervention types and departmental learnings.

Deb Frecklington says Queensland had four consecutive years of the highest unemployment in the nation before the pandemic. RMIT ABC Fact Check found that claim to be wrong.

This blueprint advances CPD’s work on improving employment services in place by showing how this approach can be scaled up across the nation in pivotal regions and places. It illustrates a pathway for implementing, governing and funding place-based initiatives for long-lasting impact on Australia's jobs crisis.