The Work Programme Evaluation 2020

The Work Programme (2011-2017) provided support to nearly 2-million unemployed people between 2011 to 2017 to find sustained work. It had an overall cost of £2.9-billion and saw 630,000 employment opportunities lasting 13 or 26 weeks.

Description

• Lead department: Department for Work and Pensions
• Evaluation stage: A complete evaluation report
• Other departments: No other departments listed
• Evaluation types: Value for money evaluation; Impact evaluation
• Impact methods: Quasi-experimental method
• Quasi-experimental methods: Matching
• Value for money methods: Cost-benefit analysis
• Grant information: This intervention is not distributing funding via a grant
• Government Major Project information: This intervention is not a major project
• Policies: No policies provided

Event Dates

• Event Name: Publication of final results
• Event date: March 2020

• Event Name: Evaluation end
• Event date: November 2020

• Event Name: Evaluation start
• Event date: March 2017

Evaluation Costs

• Cost: Not provided

Evaluation sharing

• Link(s) to published report(s): Yes
• Links to evaluation plans: No link provided
• Links to published evaluations (DEBUGGING): No final report link found.
• Findings: Not provided
• Permission to share confirmed: Yes