What can Connect to Work learn from IPS delivery?

An exclusive webinar with Shaw Trust, IPS Grow, and Barnsley Pathways to Work.

26th February 2025. 

This webinar presents recent research from the frontline of delivering employment support services for people with health challenges. It is targeted to anyone looking to commission local or regional employment support programmes or delivering existing services, with a view to:

  • Hear lessons from delivering wellbeing and employment support and how to evidence impact.
  • Understand the barriers faced by people accessing employment support services and how to provide multi-disciplinary support.
  • Set out the Fidelity model that underpins good practice in an IPS service.

Speakers include:

  • David Harper, Interim Managing Director for Community Health and Wellbeing, Shaw Trust – sharing the recent lessons from supporting 19,000 people with IPS services across rural and urban communities.
  • Gary Johnston, Director of Research and Innovation, IPS Grow – setting out the Fidelity model and best practice from across the world and specifically in the UK.
  • Tom Smith, Head of Service, Pathways to Work Commission – explaining what we’ve seen in terms of barriers to employment and what this means for local services.