Government Social Research
The Pensions Act 2008 sets out the Government’s reforms introducing, from 2012, a duty on employers to automatically enroll all their eligible employees into a qualifying workplace pension scheme. The research was conducted with individuals who would be eligible for automatic enrolment of the personal account scheme.
This report presents a preliminary cost analysis of Britain’s Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration, which is being carefully evaluated through a large-scale randomised control trial.
List of recent MoJ research reports
The guides are part of a series commissioned by the Office of the Chief Social Research Officer (OCSRO) to support the Welsh Assembly Government’s mainstreaming equalities strategy to develop an accessible and comprehensive evidence base..
Latest Welsh Assembly Government research publications
This research was designed to improve understanding about two-parent families with children living in poverty where only one parent works, and to focus particularly on the work decisions of the non-working parent.
Making decisions about work in on earner couple households
WORKSTEP is part of a broad range of programmes and schemes funded by the DWP, which aim to help disabled people find and retain work.
Exploring a Distance Travelled approach to WORKSTEP development planning
This research has been commissioned to examine the practical operations of claiming and assessing benefit. It is obvious that disabled people are better off with their benefit than without it, and some surveys have recorded their reaction when they start to receive it. But remarkably little is known about the impact of these benefits – exactly what difference they make to claimants’ care and mobility arrangements, to their overall standard of living, and to their social inclusion and sense of identity.
Impact of Disability Benefits – A feasibility study
This report investigates the motivations and propensity of people receiving various types of benefits.
Reporting changes in circumstances
The results show that confidence in the food safety measures of all organisations significantly increased from the previous tracking survey in September 2008, with 60% of respondents feeling confident about actions being taken to protect health. A sample of 2097 UK adults were interviewed for this latest wave of tracking research.
Mini survey on consumers' views
This research summary outlines development of a typology as one approach to explore the functional roles of deprived neighbourhoods. A key element in better understanding these roles is residential mobility - the flux of people into and out of neighbourhoods - and this is what the typology is based on
Understanding the different roles of deprived neighbourhoods: a typology
The results show that confidence in the food safety measures of all organisations significantly increased from the previous tracking survey in September 2008, with 60% of respondents feeling confident about actions being taken to protect health. A sample of 2097 UK adults were interviewed for this latest wave of tracking research.
Mini survey on consumers' views
A report on testing the viability of conducting a study of sentencing in England and Wales using administrative data.
The Communities@One Programme aimed to support the digital inclusion of individuals and communities within Communities First areas in Wales. “Digital inclusion” is a process which seeks to ensure greater equality of access to the potential benefits of ICT to those groups which might otherwise be excluded for economic, social, spatial or cultural reasons.
Evaluation of the Communities@One programme
3 February 2009: Scottish Government publish Housing, Regeneration and Planning research findings: review of rural housing enablers
Review of rural housing enablers
This research produces findings to inform policy in relation to the reduction of in-work poverty among families with dependent children and highlight gaps in the research in this area that might be filled by future research.
In-work poverty – a systematic review
The Partners Outreach for Ethnic Minorities (POEM) was designed to support people of working age who were not in contact with Jobcentre Plus services and who were neither working nor claiming benefit. Support was to be targeted towards non-working partners in low-income families, from ethnic groups who faced particular barriers to employment and who were living in areas of high disadvantage and high ethnic minority population.
Evaluation of Partner Outreach for Ethnic Minorities
This report explores the findings of an omnibus survey examining public awareness in Scotland of Breathing Space - a telephone service for those experiencing low mood, depression or anxiety - and examines recall of the service's advertising.
Breathing space telephone advice line