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Impacts of the job retention and rehabilitation pilot
- Authors:
- PURDON Susan, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 172p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot (JRRP) was undertaken to test out boosting the usual help for those off work due to sickness and ill health, to return to and retain their job. The report presents information about the experience of participating in the trial, and the second report provides a quantitative assessment of the impacts of the trial on return-to-work rates, health, and other measures. Key findings of the impact assessment were that this particular method of recruiting and assisting people to retain employment was not effective, the interventions had no significant impact on the group of people recruited into the trial across key return-to-work measures. Similar rates of return to work were observed in the intervention groups as in the control group. There were however some minor impacts, both positive and negative, on certain subgroups: specifically, improved return-to-work rates for those off work because of an injury; and lower return-to-work rates for those with mental health issues.
Experiences of the job retention and rehabilitation pilot
- Authors:
- FARRELL Christopher, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 208p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Job Retention and Rehabilitation pilot is testing ways of supporting the employment of people on sick leave at risk of leaving employment. It is a joint DWP and Department of Health initiative. The pilot is being carried out in six geographical areas and commenced in April 2003. The evaluation is being carried out in collaboration with the National Centre for Social Research and consists of a large programme of quantitative and qualitative research including the first major use of random assignment techniques in the UK. SPRU's input will be mainly in the qualitative elements of the research design. The aim of the pilots is to test methods to help people who have been out of work because of sickness or disability for between six and 26 weeks to return to employment as soon as possible.
Disabled children, maltreatment and attachment
- Author:
- HOWE David
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 36(5), June 2006, pp.743-760.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Two bodies of literature on children with disabilities are identified and described. One recognizes an association between disability and maltreatment. The other finds an association between children with a disability and insecure attachments. The present paper seeks a theoretical integration between these two research traditions. The model generated examines the dynamics that affect a child with a disability’s attachment classification and risk of being maltreated in terms of a transaction between both parental and child factors. In the case of children with certain types of disability, unresolved parental states of mind with respect to attachment are seen as a risk factor for maltreatment. Implications for prevention, support and treatment are considered.