Meet our partners
As a What Works centre, we work collaboratively and in partnership to effect systems change. Meet our current partners below.
As a What Works centre, we work collaboratively and in partnership to effect systems change. Meet our current partners below.
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Evidence and Research on Youth Employment, Evidence into Action ·
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ProgrammeEvidence and Research on Youth Employment, Evidence into Action
StatusActive
CEI is a global, independent nonprofit dedicated to using the best evidence to improve the lives of children, families, and communities facing adversity. CEI’s international team of researchers and implementation specialists partner with what works centres, organisational leaders and teams, practitioners and policymakers on rigorous evaluation, evidence-informed programme design, and effective implementation and scaling.
CEI collaborates with us on research and evaluation activity as a member of our evaluation panel.
As Practice Development and Implementation Partner for Evidence into Action, CEI’s primary role is to synthesise and translate current evidence available on On/Off the job training and support delivery partners to apply evidence into existing or pilot programmes and embed and sustain evidence-based practice approaches.
ProgrammeWhat Works: testing youth employment interventions
StatusActive
PLIAS Resettlement is a not for profit organisation that reduces re-offending by providing support, advice and guidance to people with criminal convictions. It focuses on the communities of North and West London.
PLIAS Resettlement has collaborated with us since 2021 and is currently a delivery partner in our What Works: testing youth employment interventions programme, where we are developing and evaluating INCLUDE.
What Works: testing youth employment interventions ·
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ProgrammeWhat Works: testing youth employment interventions
StatusActive
IES is a leading independent centre for applied research and insight on employment, workforce, and labour markets.
Its mission is to help bring about sustainable improvements in employment policy and human resource management by generating and applying the best evidence to build a more inclusive, healthier and empowering world of work. It develops insight on what works across the employment journey – from education and transitions into work, through to workforce management, development, and careers.
IES collaborates with us on research and evaluation activity as a member of our evaluation panel.
ProgrammeBuilding Futures, What Works: testing youth employment interventions
StatusActive
Ipsos is a leading provider of research and evaluation services to local and national government, public sector agencies, third sector organisations and What Works Centres in the UK. Its dedicated Policy and Evaluation Unit is made up of over 50 highly-skilled evaluators including economists, statisticians, quantitative impact evaluation specialists and theory-based method experts. The team draws on policy and methodological expertise from across our wider Public Affairs division to establish high-performing project teams with the right skills, knowledge and experience to support clients at the forefront of pressing and complex policy challenges.
Ipsos collaborates with us on research and evaluation activity as a member of our evaluation panel.
ProgrammeEvidence and Research on Youth Employment
StatusActive
NatCen is Britain’s largest independent not-for-profit social research organisation, working collaboratively to generate evidence that uncovers the reality of people’s lives in the UK.
Driven by the power of understanding, NatCen delivers exceptional value for money by pairing steadfast independence with the ability to ask the right questions that unlock truly rigorous evaluation evidence. Its non-profit commitment ensures every resource is dedicated to providing the bold clarity that enables clients to act with certainty and make life better
NatCen collaborates with us on research and evaluation activity as a member of our evaluation panel.
ProgrammeBuilding Futures
StatusActive
BIT (Behavioural Insights Team) is a global research and innovation consultancy which uses a deep understanding of human behaviour to improve people’s lives. Its work spans the full delivery lifecycle – insight, intervention, evaluation, and capacity building.
BIT collaborates with us on research and evaluation activity as a member of our evaluation panel.
Currently, it is conducting an evaluation of the demonstrator phase of our Building Futures programme.
ProgrammeWhat Works: testing youth employment interventions
StatusActive
The Youth Endowment Fund was established in March 2019 by children’s charity Impetus, with a £200m endowment and ten year mandate from the Home Office.
Its mission is to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.
It is part of the What Works Network, an initiative to improve the way government and other public sector organisations create, share and use high quality evidence in decision-making.
ProgrammeIncreasing apprenticeship supply
StatusActive
Workwhile is a small charity with a mission to create a more equitable world of work, working with employers to create more good work, and to ensure everyone can access it.
Apprenticeships are at the heart of Workwhile’s mission, and since 2020 they have created over 2,100 apprenticeships by supporting SMEs to navigate the apprenticeship system successfully.
In our Increasing Apprenticeship Supply partnership, we are working with Workwhile to increase the number of Level 2 and 3 apprenticeships through their SME Champion Providers programme, which equips training providers to better support SMEs.
This builds on our successful work together since 2022, where supported Workwhile to create apprenticeships for marginalised young people in London; to pilot the DevelopMentor programme of training for line managers; and to create a definition of good work for young people.
ProgrammeConnected Futures
LocationEast Midlands
StatusActive
D2N2 LEP supports economic growth across Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire by connecting employers, education and government to promote investment, identifying unique opportunities for innovative partnership working. It is one of 30 Local Enterprise Partnerships working across England.
D2N2 is the lead partner for the East Midlands Connected Futures partnership.
CXK, a youth employment charity dedicated to transforming the lives of young people and adults across the South of England. It provides support, advice and guidance to help them find work, or move into learning or training.
CXK is the lead partner for the Hastings Connected Futures partnership.
ProgrammeConnected Futures
LocationBurnley
StatusActive
Calico Enterprise – part of the Calico Housing Group – works in communities through colleges, and with local businesses to provide a host of training activities, vocational skills, adult education and employability programmes.
Calico Enterprise is the lead partner for the Burnley Connected Futures partnership.
ProgrammeConnected Futures
LocationHull
StatusActive
The Warren Youth Project supports young people to take control of their lives and become their best selves by helping them to develop the skills that can make it happen.
It is the lead partner for the Hull Connected Futures Partnership.
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