UKCES Tackling Exclusion report

28/06/2010

The UK Commission for Employment and Skills has published a report entitled, Tackling Exclusion.

The report aims to identify employment and skills outcomes for the most excluded groups in society including: people with disabilities; people with mental health problems; ex-offenders; migrants and the homeless. It also examines the impact of current performance management and funding frameworks on incentivising providers to work with these hardest to reach groups and explores the most effective delivery models. 

The report references the findings of the National Skills Forum's latest report, Doing Things Differently: Step Changes in Skills and Inclusion. The UKCES report agrees with the National Skills Forum's findings that restrictive funding criteria can, in some cases, make providers more risk averse to taking on individuals from hardest to reach groups and that there is a severe lack of data relating to the skills and employment pathways for the socially excluded.

Download the UKCES report