Research and Evaluation

Opinion Leader Research conducted a study into Tomorrow’s People’s Services in May 2006. The research is part of a wider project that Opinion Leader Research is conducting for the National Consumer Council and The Office for the Third Sector.

The purpose of the study is to understand what distinctive value third sector organisations bring to public services. Research was conducted amongst male ex-offenders 18-43 being supported by Tomorrow’s People’s Sefton and Liverpool office, Merseyside.

Click here to read the report from Opinion Leader Research

Technical Report:

"Benchmarking of the use of personal advisers in Jobcentre Plus"

Rand Europe has published a report, which was commissioned by the National Audit Office (NAO), presenting the results of a benchmarking study investigating the deployment and management of personal advisers in three employment advice providers, including Tomorrow’s People. The independent evaluation of Tomorrow’s People was conducted in 2006.

Click here to read the report from Rand Europe

Getting London Working, an employment project from Tomorrow’s People, began in 1999 to help people in some of London’s worst economic blackspots secure work.

Funded by the London Development Agency, it operated for over seven years to support unemployed people in the London boroughs of Islington, Camden, Lambeth and Southwark, which are all ranked in the Top 20 on the index of deprivation.

To download a copy of the independent evaluation of the Getting London Working programme carried out by Tank Consulting please click the links below

Click here for a summary
Click here for the full version

An independent evaluation of the work of Tomorrow’s People was undertaken in 2005 to mark the charity’s 20th anniversary. The evaluation, undertaken by Oxford Economic Forecasting revealed that more than 380,000 people have been helped by Tomorrow’s People to move out of long-term unemployment - resulting in savings to the UK of around £450 million.

Click here for a summary

Getting Out to Work is an innovative programme designed by Tomorrow’s People to provide intensive one-to-one support and advocacy to ex-offenders aged between 16 and 24 to help them find and sustain long-term employment.

Click here for a summary of an independent evaluation carried out by New Economics Foundation of a Getting Out to Work

Working It Out is a specialist programme supporting excluded young people, helping them develop life-management skills and gain practical work experience through a series of community challenges.

Click here for more information about the programme and a summary of an independent evaluation carried out by New Economics Foundation of the original pilot in Tower Hamlets