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Employability through health? partnership-based governance and the delivery of Pathways to Work condition management services.

Journal Article
Lindsay, C., & Dutton, M. (2010)
Employability through health? partnership-based governance and the delivery of Pathways to Work condition management services. Policy Studies, 31, 245-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442870903429660
The Pathways to Work (PtW) initiative has been rolled out in 49 Jobcentre Plus districts across Great Britain as the government seeks to provide services to activate claimants...

Promoting healthy pathways to employability: lessons for the UK's welfare-to-work agenda

Journal Article
Lindsay, C., & Dutton, M. (2013)
Promoting healthy pathways to employability: lessons for the UK's welfare-to-work agenda. Policy and Politics, 41(2), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557312x655549
The coalition government has implemented welfare-to-work policies strengthening the UK's Work First model of activating claimants of disability or incapacity benefits (IBs). T...

Inter-agency Cooperation and New Approaches to Employability

Journal Article
Lindsay, C., McQuaid, R. W., & Dutton, M. (2008)
Inter-agency Cooperation and New Approaches to Employability. Social Policy and Administration, 42(7), 715-732. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2008.00634.x
This article examines the role of inter-agency cooperation, which is one form of ‘partnership’, in new approaches to employability in the UK. The article articulates a ‘model ...

New approaches to employability in the UK: combining ‘human capital development’ and ‘work first’ strategies?

Journal Article
Lindsay, C., McQuaid, R. W., & Dutton, M. (2007)
New approaches to employability in the UK: combining ‘human capital development’ and ‘work first’ strategies?. Journal of Social Policy, 36, 539-560. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279407001171
This article analyses recent developments in policies to promote the employability of unemployed and economically inactive people in the UK. It discusses the extent to which t...

Ageing, skills and participation in work-related training in Britain: assessing the position of older workers

Journal Article
Canduela, J., Dutton, M., Johnson, S., Lindsay, C., Raeside, R., & McQuaid, R. W. (2012)
Ageing, skills and participation in work-related training in Britain: assessing the position of older workers. Work, Employment and Society, 26, 42-60. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017011426303
Policy makers have introduced a number of measures to encourage older workers to stay in the labour market, with improving access to training a particular priority. Policy act...

Best practice in inter-agency cooperation on employability

Journal Article
McQuaid, R. W., Lindsay, C., Dutton, M. & McCracken, M. G. (2006)
Best practice in inter-agency cooperation on employability. Labour Market Bulletin. 20
This article reports the summary of findings of research commissioned by the Department for Employment and Learning on best practice in inter-agency co-operation on employabil...