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We're now on 4 proven interventions thanks to employment data lab - no one has beaten Resurgo yet - so an increasing body of evidence to inform funding decisions from DWP, councils, philanthropists and others

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Interesting that Humber Learning Consortium work with enough SEND young people to analyse this subgroup - a first for data lab. They have success at supporting these yp to be "looking for work", rather than gaining work. I suspect this is common to a lot of programmes - more to do here

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Firstly, big shout out to @mynottingham.bsky.social - we need local and national government to evaluate their work more, and I hope your example will be followed by others. A role for the LGA here

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

More good news from DWP employment data lab - effective programmes from Humber Learning Consortium (Springboard Hull and Humber) and @mynottingham.bsky.social (Nottingham Works 4You), well done guys! Thoughts (and link) below

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Good start to the day talking Conservatives and civil society thanks to @probonoecon.bsky.social. Stuart Andrew wants regular engagement with the third sector - suspect we want the same! #PBEevents

Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The basic problem with "ancestry" as the basis for identity is I literally wasn't alive then. I'm an Essex Boy, English, and British because it's literally all I've ever known

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The explanation from @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social implies significant long-term benefits of working at 17/18. Anyone know a good Lit Review on this question?

Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Sometimes I think we need a Centre for Unpopular Policy

Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A good CPS event with @lehain.bsky.social @neildotobrien.bsky.social Meg Powell-Chandler and Dan Moynihan

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

And also I suspect there will be rows about whether what she does actually furthers her aims

Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Initial reaction to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social speech at @csjthinktank.bsky.social - there's very little in it that I couldn't imagine Michael Gove saying

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Packed room at @csjthinktank.bsky.social for this - there's a live stream, and a live thread below

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

See also: keyboard shortcuts, Excel formulas... Someone somewhere must have put together a 12hr course on productivity skills?

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Christian Spence @christianspence.co.uk · 13/01/2025

Housing, transport, health and education. Arguable the principal four sectors for any economy, all more expensive than the OECD average. And if that turns you to drink, I've got even worse news ...

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

AI Action Plan day is a good time to remind people of some @thenfer.bsky.social research from before Xmas - ChatGPT reduced lesson planning time by 31% with no noticeable reduction in quality

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

My biggest weakness? Buying festive products at 75% discount. Next year's Christmas crackers sorted, and I have enough chocolate to last until Easter (when I will then buy three months worth of chocolate the week after Easter)

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Probably a stupid question but does anyone know if the US invades Greenland can Denmark trigger article 5?

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Starting the year strong with Community Catalyst event at @uniwestpress.bsky.social on English and maths. Talking administrative data and hearing from @fftedudatalab.bsky.social

Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Oh hush the noise, ye men of strife, And hear the angels sing!

Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Quite the call. Is this in the interests of the young people the @childrenssociety.bsky.social exists to serve?

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Duncan Exley @duncanexley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

One of the main things I notice about employment rights is that many of the working-class folk I know were neither granted or aware of those rights, & many of the middle class folk I know assumed that rights were universally known & granted.

A screenshot of an excerpt from the piece to which the post links. It says “Efforts to tally up specific breaches point to problems on a breath-taking, and under-addressed, scale. According to the Government’s own estimates, 365,000 workers were paid less than the minimum wage to which they are entitled – and yet HMRC only uncovers around a third as many individual cases, and imposes penalties in fewer still. Many other supposedly well-established ‘day one’ rights turn out to be hard to cash in: 900,000 workers report receiving no paid holiday; 600,000 who were meant to be automatically enrolled in a pension that the employer chips into, had not in fact been so; and an astonishing 1.8 million don’t get the payslip they are entitled to, in order to check they are getting what they’re due.”

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Salary and value aren't the same thing. Do you want high starting salaries and low progression thereafter; or high salaries, high progression and high cost?

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I can sort of understand rubbernecking at a semi serious accident being your immediate reaction - but why does 2% of the population have a real problem with being politely encouraged to give an injured person some privacy?

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Very good thread. I'd note this focuses primarily on *output* targets for public services (waiting times, exam results etc.] Of course what we (politicians, public) are really interested in are *outcomes* [health of the population/ourselves, education quality, incomes] But.. [1/2]

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I don't usually see curiosity as to whether surprising facts are accurate as a political bias but I suppose the fun thing about biases is we'll never truly know

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... Is that relevant somehow?

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Motivation was I couldn't believe it and wanted to know if it was true! I'm sorry if "several" was off-putting. Based on a quick bit of Wikipedia, it's at least three in the full cabinet, but not every school is listed for everyone (and to be a pendant, Miliband was abroad for a bit)

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Out of interest though Nandy - Prep school (then same secondary as Powell!)

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I didn't check every Cabinet member, I just found these discrepancies and concluded the claim isn't quite right. Assuming good faith, I did some digging (I work in the education space) and a colleague made the Sutton Trust point. At this point I'm trying to understand not just be a pendant!

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Several cabinet members spent at least some time at a fee paying school, including Starmer. Benn went to prep school. We think this might be based on a Sutton Trust definition of "majority state educated"

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 28/11/2024

Must be "at least partially" state educated? Rather than 100% state educated?

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I often like to say crazy but true things in conversations with no context. Like, I went to a museum earlier this year and the trousers of someone I follow here were one of the exhibits.

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

She, er, appears to have got her own age wrong. (Noted by a Twitter follower). Born 1987… bsky.app/profile/wall...

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Luke Sibieta @lukesibieta.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Today, the govt has confirmed National Funding Formula allocations for schools in England An extra £2.3bn was announced in the Autumn Budget. About £1bn is going on high needs. The rest is going on mainstream schools, but the funding rises probably won't cover schools expected costs next year 🧵

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Ben Gadsby @brgadsby.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today the @ONS NEET stats show around one in eight young people are neither earning nor learning. As we all await the promised white paper, thread below on what works to boost youth employment

Good to end the day talking to @benkentish.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk about the curriculum and assessment review. A good chance to advocate for oracy and tutoring to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds (and also apparently to lament not going on the ski trip)

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More data lab reports next year! Massive thanks to the team at DWP helping build a super strong evidence base that enables us, as a society, to ensure all young people get the support they need to succeed /end

This is not a bad thing - training providers should be selective about who they work with, and focus on those who they are best placed to help. But it does make it hard to know what would have happened to those young people without the intervention

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Also out today, outcomes only findings for Generation UK, a skills bootcamp provider funded by @impetusuk.bsky.social. About 70% of their young people are employed after a year (much higher than other programmes) but there's no counterfactual because they are so selective about who they train

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For comparison, my running log of employment data lab findings on "increased employment at 12 months" now reads Resurgo Spear +25% @streetleagueuk.bsky.social ueUK +15% Merseyside Youth Association 0% Funders/commissioners - use this information!

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Based on the matched control group here, participants on both @streetleagueuk.bsky.social programmes are around 15% more likely to be employed 12 months after starting the programme

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Congratulations @streetleagueuk.bsky.social on having a statistically significant impact of getting more people into jobs. In a world where relatively few things are ever shown to work, this is a real achievement

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