Employment support: The Kickstart Scheme
Published on:This report examines how well DWP’s Kickstart scheme was implemented, and whether it is having the intended positive impact.
This report examines how well DWP’s Kickstart scheme was implemented, and whether it is having the intended positive impact.
This briefing presents information on how DWP supports people into work, and the challenges it may face in delivering support.
More employers in England need to be persuaded of the value to their businesses of employment-related education and skills training, according to the National Audit Office. Today’s report to Parliament recommends that the ways in which employers get advice and information be simplified; that the emphasis should be on flexible and affordable training that employers […]
Many emergency admissions to hospital are avoidable and many patients stay in hospital longer than is necessary.
Since the early 1990s, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Driving Standards Agency and the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency have made some of their services available either through the internet, by telephone or through business to business computer systems. A report released today by the National Audit Office has found that these developments […]
This report sets out the NAO’s assessment of the delivery of the electronic monitoring (‘tagging’) transformation programme.
This report examines how effectively Ofgem has used electricity network price controls to protect consumers and achieve government’s environmental goals.
Electricity cannot be stored economically in large quantities, and electricity supply and demand throughout the UK must therefore be balanced on a second by second basis. As System Operator, National Grid is responsible for doing this, and it uses a variety of mechanisms which are collectively known as Balancing Services.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has undertaken an efficiency review of the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) delivery of meat hygiene official controls.
Despite some improvements in the management of court cases, around two-thirds of criminal trials do not proceed as planned on the day they are originally scheduled. Delays and aborted hearings create extra work, waste scarce resources and undermine confidence in the justice system.
Public sector bodies could avoid £500 million in costs over five years if they improve how they procure common goods and services.
By creating complex shared services over-tailored to individual departments, government has increased costs rather than made savings.
This study assesses how effectively the Department for Education is supporting education recovery in schools following the COVID-19 pandemic.