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National Employer Skills Survey for England 2009: Key findings report

March 2010
This Evidence Report presents the Key Findings from the National Employer Skills Survey for England 2009 (NESS09), the newest edition of a time series of surveys that was established by the Learning and Skills Council in 2003.
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Outcome Based Commissioning: Lessons from contracting out employment and skills programmes in Australia and the USA

July 2010
This report was funded by the UK Commission as part of a programme of activity to inform the development of the proposals in ‘Ambition 2020: skills, jobs growth’. This report assesses the commissioning and contracting processes through which employment and skills provision is procured in both the USA and Australia and works to identify design and implementation issues that may be of help for reforms to the British system.