The policy background is the UK Coalition Government’s introduction of radical reforms to the welfare and benefits system, encapsulated in the Welfare Reform Act of 2012. These reforms are shaped by an over-arching drive to “make work pay” and reduce the number of workless households, while also simplifying the welfare system and cutting welfare expenditure...

This report sets out the findings from research into the Back on Track alternative provision pilots. These projects stemmed from a commitment in the 2008 White Paper, Back on Track: A strategy for modernising alternative provision for young people (DCSF, 2008), to transform the quality of alternative education for those who are excluded from, or...

This report examines how the benefits of Feed-in Tariffs and new and innovative funding mechanisms for energy efficiency can be accessed by social housing. Although some social landlords have been able to access FITs to install solar panels, the policy was not designed with the social housing sector in mind or intended to address social...

This Local Government Association commissioned report helps collate case study examples of local authorities supporting schools in their enhanced role to provide independent and impartial careers guidance to young people. Eight LAs were selected by the LGA and NFER carried out telephone interviews with the key strategic lead on the transition of careers guidance from...

This study is the first that investigates the mortality of homeless people for all causes of death at the national level in England. It looked at national death records and matched the postcode given in each of them to the known addresses of homeless projects to ascertain the number of deaths that were likely, with...