Documents Department for Work and Pensions, London 48 results

"We commissioned this survey of employees to update and extend our understanding of the relationship between health and work for employees in Great Britain. The research:

builds evidence to understand sickness absence
informs the design, implementation and communication strategy of Fit for Work, the new national independent health and work advice and referral service
We ran an earlier survey of employees to gain a detailed understanding of attitudes and behaviours towards health and wellbeing at work."

"The UK has an ageing population, which offers both challenges and opportunities for individuals, businesses and the economy. The department's publication Fuller Working Lives - a framework for action outlined the background evidence around later life working and retirement and set out a number of actions to help people have fuller working lives.

To build on the Framework and fill some key evidence gaps, this research was commissioned to explore older people's attitudes to later life working and retirement. The research explores the attitudes of those who are currently employed, self-employed, and unemployed to later life working and retirement. It also explores the attitudes and reflections of those who are currently retired to the circumstances surrounding retirement and later life working."

"The UK has an ageing population, which offers both challenges and opportunities for individuals, businesses and the economy.

Our publication Fuller Working Lives – a framework for action outlined the background evidence around later life working and retirement and set out a number of actions to help people have fuller working lives.

We also published Attitudes of the over 50s to fuller working lives, which reports the results of polling research into individuals' attitudes to fuller working lives.

To build on the polling research with individuals, and on the framework, this research was commissioned to explore the attitudes of employers to retaining, recruiting, and retraining workers aged 50 and over. It explores the policies and practices employers currently have in place to support later life working, and their attitudes around the perceived benefits and challenges of having workers aged 50 or over in their organisation."

"Universal Credit is designed to reduce poverty by making work pay. It is a new, simpler, single monthly benefit payment for people in or out of work. It replaces:



income-based Jobseeker's Allowance

income-related Employment and Support Allowance

Income Support

Working Tax Credit

Child Tax Credit

Housing Benefit

Universal Credit has been introduced gradually to ensure Jobcentre Plus offices have been able to safely test the new system as it continues to roll out. Jobcentre Plus offices began to accept Universal Credit claims in April 2013. By July 2013, 4 pathfinder offices were accepting claims and by April 2014, 6 more had been added. A further expansion in the north-west of England began in June 2014 so that by the end of January 2015 around 100 Jobcentre Plus offices were accepting claims.



During 2014, Universal Credit has been made available to newly unemployed claimant groups including couples and families in the north-west and to people with housing costs or who had made a recent claim to another benefit.



The evaluation of Universal Credit is a core part of the testing and comprises a range of research with staff, claimants and external delivery partners.



This report assesses what difference Universal Credit has made to the employment and earnings of new claimants during the early stages of the roll-out. It evaluates the impact on new claims made in the original 4 pathfinder offices between July 2013 and April 2014. This analysis is part of a longer-term and broader body of work that will evaluate what impact Universal Credit has on labour market outcomes."

"This working paper presents a quick review of international research evidence, mainly from the European Union (EU) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), on ‘what works' to help disabled people into employment and to remain and progress in work.

The review was commissioned to augment DWP's evidence base in this area and its conclusions have been used to help inform proposals for The disability and health employment strategy: the discussion so far, published on 17 December 2013."