The Centre for Public Service Partnerships newest report is Personalisation, Innovation and Economic Growth – the essentials for tackling long term unemployment (pdf).  It was commissioned as part of a partnership with Tomorrows People, a Charity which has helped more than 440,000 long-term unemployed people back into work since 1984.

Our research considered the opportunities and risks of the new Government funded Work Programme, launched this month, to be delivered by private sector contractors who will be funded by results – by their success in reducing the benefits bill as the long term unemployed move into sustained work. They will bear the initial costs and choose how to sub-contract, but there is wide disappointment at how few local and voluntary organisations are involved.