Picking up, March 2016 ‘Unpacking’ Pathways 
    to Work.
    •Evelyn Brodkin (2015)                      A Collaborative Approach to  Public Employment Services
      Regulatory –Compensation - Enabling -
                                                Maynooth University  Dr Mary Murphy, Dr Nuala Whelan, Dr 
                                                Philip Finn
    •Pathways  to Work 2012-2016  Crisis        Irish Local Development Network, Irish National Organisation 
     management –                               of the Unemployed, Local Employment Services Network
                                                Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection        
                                                •A Public Employment System
    •Pathways to Work 2016- 20 – Recovery       •A Guidance Model
                                                •A focus on how to implement,  evaluate and learn    
    •Pathways to Work 2020 – 24 ?               Mixed methods, collaborative, co construction, participative, 
                                                learning labs    
        PES and/or Guidance ? 
                                                                                                                          2019 evaluations, 
                                                                                                                          Committed to three  
                                                                                                                          ‘institutions’ serving 
                                                                                                                          three distinct groups  - 
                                                                                                                          next steps 
                       1994
                     FAS PES                                  2013-2016                                                  2019
                                                                  61                                                   IGEES  PES 
                      Local                    2011            Intreo                                                 Evaluations          2020- 25
                  Employmen                Pathways to                           2014 Job          Pathways to          Intreo,           Pathway to 
                                           Work  2011-1       offices               Path           Work  16-20         Job Path,            Work? 
                    t Service                                                                                            LESN
                    Network                                                     Seetec and 
                                                                                Turas Nua                               reviews
                                                                                                                    IGEES - declining live register 
                                                                                                                    should lead to less 
                                                                                                                    investment in PES and or 
                                                                                                                    expansion beyond  the live 
                                                                                                                    register   
     Present understanding of PES as narrow 
     activation  
                     Intreo
                                             Public Employment Services (PES) are a series 
                                             of internally managed and externally 
       Employability               Jobpath   contracted services which provide activation 
                                             supports and services to a range of social 
                                             welfare payment recipients 
                                             (Lavelle and Callaghan DPER 2018
                                Job          Danger of confusing PES and activation (and 
              LESN             Clubs 
                                             rationing  it accordingly)?
 A ‘public employment system’ is wider than ‘unemployment’  
    • ILO: public employment service  - a 
    government organization which matches 
    employers to employees
    • Served economic and social policy 
    functions: respond to changing needs in 
    society and the labour market
    • Mediating between the demand and 
    supply side of labour market and 
    addressing structural mismatches  
    between supply and demand 
  Wide range of stakeholders, joined up thinking, governance…   
      Report                                                          Governance                                       Comment 
      Future Job Ireland 2019                                         Dept Taoiseach,  and Business, Enterprise        Forecasting  and need for guidance to enable  workers shift  careers  in 
                                                                      and Innovation                                   fast changing labour market  - assumes Intreo
      Indecon Review Career Guidance  (2019)                          Dept Education                                   Mapping and assessment oriented towards guidance as  education 
                                                                                                                       function 
      Welfare and Employment                                          NESC (Dept Taoiseach)                            Qualitative research and policy analysis , clear that quality guidance  
      Moving from Welfare to Work: Low work intensity                                                                  crucial and best case workers needed for most complex needs  
      households and the quality of supportive services (2018)
                                                                      Dept Employment Affairs and Social 
                                                                      Protection                                       Funding and governance review (meets targets but not clear why) 
      Indecon Review  LESN and Jobs Club March 2019
                                                                      Contracted services unit                         2012/2013 DiD (sense of little impact, data issues, PEX problematic, no 
      ESRI Review Intreo March 2019                                                                                    cost)
                                                                      Labour market unit
      OCED/DEASP evaluation JobPath   March 2019                                                                       Cluster analysis and meets sustainable employment outcome target (but 
                                                                      Statistics unit                                  no sense of what works and why, or cost)
      SICAP 2018                                                      Dept Rural and Community                         Evaluation –individual and community outcome metrics, integration   
                                 nd
      NAPSI (2020-2013) May 22  SIF                                   Dept Employment Affairs and Social               Labour Market Unit  (Social Inclusion) 
      Pathways to Work (3 – 2020-2024)                                Protection                                       Labour Market Unit
      Making Work Pay for People with Disability                                                                       AGS working group  
      PES Review  (2018)                                              Dept Public Expenditure and Reform               Focus on value for money in context of declining  unemployment , narrow 
      Live Register Trends assessment (2016),                         Irish Government Economic and Evaluation         conception of PES as activation  - of  live register 
                                                                      Service (IGEES),