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New Deal for Disabled People
CRSP led a consortium to evaluate the New Deal for Disabled People. The New Deal for
Disabled People is a voluntary programme designed to assist people
with disabilities and health conditions enter sustained employment.
It is a key part of the Government's welfare to work strategy. A
network of around 60 Job Brokers was established to deliver
the programme to incapacity benefit recipients and to employers.
Job Brokers are a mix not-for-profit, private and public sector
organisations who bid to cover specific geographical areas.
The evaluation was a large scale project and involved a mix
of qualitative and quantitative methods including qualitative research
with Job Brokers, participants and Jobcentre Plus staff, surveys
of participants, Job Brokers and the eligible population, and research
with employers. Most of the fieldwork for the evaluation incorporated
a longitudinal dimension. The evaluation also included an impact
assessment and a cost benefit study.
The evaluation has lead to the publication of several reports. Selected key findings from the evaluation are:
- Between July 2001 (when NDDP was launched nationally) and March 2005, 146,340 people had registered with NDDP. Participants are more ‘job ready’ than members of the eligible population – they are more likely to be male, younger, on an incapacity benefit for a shorter duration, less likely to have a mental health condition and more likely to have musculo-skeletal problems than the Incapacity Benefit population as a whole.
- The longitudinal design of the evaluation reveals that:
- Job Brokers are not dealing with a ‘static’ client group – for instance, clients’ perceptions of their barriers and bridges to work change over time.
- Relations between Job Brokers and local Jobcentre Plus offices have improved over time – for example, Job Broker staff said Jobcentre Plus advisers had a better understanding of the service they provided.
- The Job Brokers as organisations have continued to evolve, such as by increasing the use of specialist workers especially for delivering in-work support to participants.
- Up to March 2005, 56,829 participants (39 per cent) had moved into paid work, with 70 per cent doing so within three months of registering with a Job Broker. The main factors affecting the likelihood of participants obtaining jobs were: Job Brokers’ characteristics and activities, participants’ characteristics and region.
The other members of the consortium were: Abt
Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Institute
for Employment Studies; the National
Centre for Social Research; the Social
Policy Research Unit at the University
of York; and the Urban
Institute in Washington, D.C.. The consortium was also supported
by an Advisory Group of academics and representatives of the voluntary
sector chaired by Professor
Robert Walker. The consortium was led by Professor Bruce Stafford (CRSP).
Sponsor
Department for
Work and Pensions.
Project Team: Professor Bruce Stafford (CRSP), Karen Kellard (CRSP), Katherine Hill (CRSP), Viet-Hai Phung (CRSP), Professor David Greenberg (University of Maryland), Abigail Davis (CRSP), Dr Monica Magadi (CRSP), Elspeth Pound (CRSP), Kate Legge (CRSP)
Project Administrator: Sharon Walker and Nicola Selby
Start date: July 2001
Completion date: 2007
PUBLICATIONS
Full table of publications
Cost Benefit Analysis
Greenberg, D. and Davis, A. (2007). Evaluation of the New Deal for Disabled People: cost and cost-benefit analyses – DWP Research Report No. 431. Leeds: CDS.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2007-2008/rrep431.pdf
Impact Analysis
Orr, L., Bell, S. and Lam, K. (2007). Long-term Impacts of the New Deal for Disabled People Final Report. DWP Research Report No. 432. Leeds: CDS.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2007-2008/rrep432.pdf
Orr, L., Bell, S. and Kornfeld, R. (2004) Tests of Non-experimental Methods for Evaluating the Impact of the New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP), DWP Research Report W198, Sheffield: DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/jad/2004/198rep.pdf
Qualitative Research
Davis, A., Pound, E. and Stafford, B. (2006) New Deal for Disabled People Extensions: examining the role and operation of new Job Brokers, DWP Research Report 384, Sheffield: DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2005-2006/rrep384.pdf
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/summ2005-2006/384summ.pdf
Lewis, J., Corden, A., Dillon, L., Hill, K., Kellard, K., Sainsbury, R. and Thornton, P. (2005) New Deal for Disabled People: An In-Depth Study of Job Broker Service Delivery, DWP Research Report 246, Sheffield: DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2005-2006/rrep246.pdf
Corden, A., Harries, T., Hill, K., Kellard, K., Lewis, J., Sainsbury, R. and Thornton, P. (2003) New Deal for Disabled People National Extension: Findings from the First Wave of Qualitative Research with Clients, Job Brokers and Jobcentre Plus Staff, DWP Research Report 169, Sheffield: DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/jad/2003/169rep.pdf
Qualitative Research with Employers
Aston, J., Willison, R., Davis, S. and Barkworth, R. (2005) Employers and the New Deal for Disabled People: Qualitative Research, Wave 2, DWP Research Report 231, DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2005-2006/rrep231.pdf
Aston, J., Atkinson, J, Evans, C. and O’Regan, S. (2003) Employers and the New Deal for Disabled People: Qualitative Research: First wave, DWP Research Report W145, Sheffield: DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/jad/2003/145_rep.pdf
Survey of the Eligible Population
Kazimirski, A., Pires, C., Shaw, A., Sainsbury, R. and Meah, A. (2005) New Deal for Disabled People Eligible Population Survey Wave Three, DWP Research Report 324.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2005-2006/rrep324.pdf
Woodward, C., Kazimirski, A., Shaw, A. and Pires, C. (2003) New Deal for Disabled People Eligible Population Survey Wave One, DWP Research Report 170, Sheffield: DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/jad/2003/170rep.pdf
Survey of Employers
Dewson, S., Ritchie, H. and Meager, N. (2005) New Deal for Disabled People: Survey of Employers, DWP Research Report 301, DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2005-2006/rrep301.pdf
Survey of Job Brokers
McDonald, S. Davis, A., Stafford, B. (2004) Report of the Survey of Job Brokers, DWP Research Report W197, Sheffield: DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/jad/2004/197rep.pdf
Survey of Registrants
Legge, K., Magadi, M., Phung, V-H., Stafford, B., Hales, J., Hayllar, O.,
Nevill, C. and Wood, M. (2006). New Deal for Disabled People: Survey
of Registrants – report of Cohort 3. DWP Research Report No. 369.
Leeds: CDS.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2005-2006/rrep369.pdf
http://www.workandpensions.gov.uk/asd/asd5/summ2005-2006/369summ.pdf
Kazimirski, A., Adelman, L., Arch, J., Keenan, L., Legge, L., Shaw, A., Stafford, B., Taylor, R. and Tipping, S. (2005) New Deal for Disabled People Evaluation: Registrants’ Survey - Merged Cohorts (Cohorts one and two, Waves one and two), DWP Research Report 260, Sheffield, DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2005-2006/rrep260.pdf
Ashworth, K., Hartfree, Y., Kazimirski, A., Legge, K., Pires, C., Reyes de Beaman, S., Shaw, A. and Stafford, B. (2004) New Deal for Disabled People National Extension: First Wave of the First Cohort of the Survey of Registrants, DWP Research Report 180, Sheffield: DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/jad/2003/180rep.pdf
Adelman, L., Ashworth, K., Legge, K., Mangla, J., Pires, C., Reyes de Beaman, S., Shaw, A. and Stafford, B. (2004) New Deal for Disabled People: Survey of Registrants - Report of Cohort 1 Waves 1 and 2, DWP Research Report W213, Sheffield: DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/jad/2004/213sum.pdf
Synthesis Reports
Stafford, B. with others (2007). New Deal for Disabled People: Third synthesis report - key findings from the evaluation. DWP Research Report No. 430. Leeds: CDS.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2005-2006/rrep377.pdf
Stafford, B. with Adelman, L., Hill, K., Kellard, K., Legge, K., Aston, J.,
Barkworth, R., Davis, S., Willison, R., Arch, J., Dillon, L., Kazimirski, A.,
Keenan, L., Lewis, J., Pires, C., Shaw, A., Taylor, R., Tipping, S.,
Corden, A., Meah, A., Sainsbury, R., Thornton, P., Alander, A. and
Saunders, T. (2006). New Deal for Disabled People: Second synthesis
report – interim findings from the evaluation. DWP Research Report
No. 377. Leeds: CDS.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2005-2006/rrep377.pdf
Stafford, B with Ashworth,
K., Davis, A., Hartfree, Y., Hill, K., Kellard, K., Legge, K., McDonald,
S., Reyes De-Beaman, S., Aston, J., Atkinson, J., Davis, S., Evans,
C., Lewis, J., O'Regan, J., Harries, T., Kazimirski, A., Pires,
C., Shaw, A. and Woodward, C. (2004) New Deal for Disabled People
(NDDP): First synthesis report, DWP Research Report W199, Sheffield:
DWP.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/jad/2004/199rep.pdf
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