Government Social Research
The research concludes that new migrants have not had an impact on the numbers claiming unemployment benefits in the UK, or had a significant impact on wages.
The impact of migration from the new European Union Member States on native workers (PDF)
The report describes the findings of the survey, which aims to create a picture of the secondary school teaching workforce in terms of teachers’ qualifications and the curriculum subjects they taught. The results are comparable with the results of the last SSCSS carried out in 2002, in order to observe change over time.
Secondary School Curriculum and Staffing Survey 2007 (PDF)
There is growing public concern about how much alcohol young people drink in their teenage years. The evidence set out in this Action Plan, which was promised in the Children's Plan, shows the extent of the problem.
This second paper in the Planning for the Future series examines what kind of affordable housing people want, which aspects of their homes they like and don’t like, and highlights issues that need to be addressed to improve housing to better meet the needs of the tenants (and shared owners) of today and tomorrow. It has looked at research from the private sector as well as exploring the main priorities of social tenants.
Life in affordable housing (PDF)
The report provides information from a ten year research programme undertaken by Forestry Research into the performance of experiments with woodland establishment on modern engineered landfill sites and on the monitoring of woodland growth performance and the impact of tree planting and rooting at landfill sites.
Woodland Establishment on Landfill sites: Ten Years of Research
This report summarises people's attitudes to climate change in relation to transport. It is based on a survey module included in the Office for National Statistics' Omnibus Survey in August 2006, April 2007, August 2007 and February 2008.
It covers the following issues:
Public Attitudes to Climate Change in relation to Transport
Research was commissioned by the Scottish Government to assist the Scottish Broadcasting Commission in their investigations of the role for broadcasting in Scotland’s cultural life and broadcast journalism in Scotland.
Public Attitudes to Broadcasting in Scotland
Research conducted by Sheffield University and London School of Economics and funded by the Economic & Social Research Council, shows that our everyday concerns about crime in England and Wales are much less frequent than previously thought
Fear of crime or anxiety about a rapidly changing society?
The aim of this study was to evaluate a Pathfinder project which was intended to improve the effectiveness of employment work undertaken with offenders.
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/improving-employment-interventions.htm
This working paper reports on a methodological study of measurement of older people’s ability to access information.
Opportunity Age Information Indicators Feasibility Study
This report provides insights into community attitudes to immigration, multiculturalism and social cohesion, based on findings from especially commissioned national and local surveys. Topics include: our sense of belonging, how happy we are, how satisfied we are financially, and how much we trust in politicians, public institutions and other people.
The report also examines complex attitudes to immigration and multicultural society, including assistance to ethnic groups, and levels of discrimination, and the degree of disaffection in our community.
This study, published by the Institute of Education followed up the impact on children’s literacy in London schools a year or more after intervention had been received.
A Reading Recovery Follow up Study
The first UK-wide review of youth homelessness for a decade reveals that the number of young people accepted as homeless has fallen in England and Wales in the last three years, but remained unchanged in Scotland and Northern Ireland. However, at least 75,000 young people are in contact with homelessness services every year. The report looked at the effectiveness of policy developments implemented over the last decade to address youth homelessness. It found that, overall, services considered that policy was moving in the right direction, although young people were less positive, citing the challenges they faced in securing appropriate and affordable housing.
Fair Cities was an experimental initiative devised by the National Employment Panel. It ran between November 2004 and March 2008. Its aim was to improve ethnic minority employment using a demand-led (employer-led) approach in Brent, Birmingham and Bradford.
Evaluation of the Fair Cities Pilots 2007
Contents include:
Parental Choice Options Under No Child Left Behind Act
Canadian Policy Research Network publishes Frameworks of Integrated Care for the Elderly: A Systematic Review - a literature review prepared for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Margaret MacAdam examines articles and papers that study comprehensive models of integrated or coordinated care. She identified that some models of integrated health and social care can result in improved outcomes, client satisfaction and/or cost savings or cost-effectiveness.
Frameworks of Integrated Care for the Elderly: A Systematic Review