RR 792 Evaluation of the Fit for Work Service pilots: first year report
edited by Jim Hillage
Following Dame Carol Black’s 2008 review of the health of Britain’s working age population, 11 Fit for Work Service (FFWS) pilots were launched throughout Great Britain with the intention of testing different approaches to supporting people in the early stages of sickness absence working in small and medium-sized enterprises to get back to work as quickly as possible.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), with the Department of Health (DH), commissioned a consortium involving the Institute for Employment Studies (IES), the Fit for Work Research Group at Liverpool University, the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of York, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), and GfK NOP, to evaluate the pilots.
This report presents the findings from the first year of the evaluation.
February 2012 128 pages 297x210mm
ISBN 978-1-908523-53-2
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