Research Reports

Welcome to the Reports page. Here you'll find useful reports and summaries of research we have carried out on a range of issues affecting skills in the Justice and community safety sector.


Employment and Skills within the Justice Sector - Workforce needs, skills priorities, and scenarios (March-May 2010)
We have just completed a large research project to gain a better understanding of the current and future skills in the sector. Executive Summary documents for the UK, and for England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland are available to download below, along with the full reports.



We also worked with the Institute for Employment Studies to look at skills priorities and scenarios, the results of which are available in the following short briefing summary, along with the full report



Professional and Financial Services Cluster Report (March 2010)
The report below examines skills needs within Professional and Financial Services, to help employers to identify key areas for current and future skills development. The report has fed into the Government's National Strategic Skills Audit|, launched by Lord Mandelson on 17 March 2010.



Skills in the Justice Sector - A survey of Third Sector employers (October 2009)
We conducted a survey covering over 500 Third Sector employers working in the Justice sector across the UK. The survey included questions on the characteristics of the workforce - both paid and volunteer - and looked at workforce development, skills gaps and shortages as well as future skills demands.

Below, you can download a briefing summary, executive summary, and the full report.

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