Researchers: Roy Sainsbury, Anne Corden, Patricia Thornton, Angela Meah. In collaboration with the Universities of Loughborough and Sussex, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the National Centre for Social Research, the Urban Institute, Washington, and Abt Associates (USA).
Funder: Department for Work and Pensions
Duration: August 2001 to April 2006
Following the completion of the New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP) personal adviser pilots in 2001, the government introduced what it described as a ‘national extension’ of the pilots to run for three years from 2001 to 2004. Under the national extension contracts for the provision of job broking services have been let across Great Britain to approximately 75 organisations from the public, private and voluntary sectors. Job brokers have the freedom to decide how they deliver services to help people move towards and into work and are funded according to the results they achieve.
The evaluation of the national extension was carried out by a consortium of research organisations of which SPRU was a core member. The research included a range of quantitative and qualitative techniques, including the use of random assignment as a method of assessing the impact of the job broker services. This was the first time that random assignment had been used on a large scale in social research in this country. The research design also included surveys of participants, non-participants and employers, the analysis of administrative data to measure the cost-effectiveness of the programme, and a suite of qualitative work with participants, job broker staff and employers.
In 2004 a second wave of qualitative research was carried out to explore experiences of delivering and using NDDP services from the perspectives of clients, job broker staff and staff from Jobcentre Plus offices. The results were published in 2005. Using the survey of people eligible to participate in NDDP as a sampling frame, a qualitative follow up study was carried out of people identified from the survey as being knowledgeable about job broker services. The findings from the follow up study were published in the survey report in 2006.
Publications
2007
New Deal for Disabled People: Third synthesis report - key findings from the evaluation, 2007
Stafford, B., Corden, A., Meah, A., Sainsbury, R. and Thornton, P., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, vol. 430. 2006
New Deal for Disabled People Evaluation: Eligible population survey, wave three, 2006
Pires, C., Kazimirski, A., Shaw, A., Sainsbury, R. and Meah, A., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, vol. 324. New Deal for Disabled People: Second synthesis report - interim findings from the evaluation, 2006
Stafford, B., Corden, A., Meah, A., Sainsbury, R. and Thornton, P., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, vol. 377. 2005
New Deal for Disabled People: An in-depth study of Job Broker service delivery, 2005
Lewis, J., Corden, A., Dillon, L., Hill, K., Kellard, K., Sainsbury, R. and Thornton, P., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, vol. 246. New Deal for Disabled People: An in-depth study of job broker service delivery, 2005
Lewis, J., Corden, A., Dillon, L., Hill, K., Kellard, K., Sainsbury, R. and Thornton, P., DWP Research Summary, 246, Corporate Document Services. 2004
New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP): First synthesis report, 2004
Stafford, B. [et al.] incl. Corden, A., Sainsbury, R. and Thornton, P., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, W199. 2003
New Deal for Disabled People National Extensions: Findings from the First Wave of Qualitative Research with Clients, Job Brokers and Jobcentre Plus Staff, 2003
Corden, A., Harries, T., Hill, K., Kellard, K., Lewis, J., Sainsbury, R. and Thornton, P., Department for Work and Pensions Research Report, 169.
