Latest research

SkillsActive’s research team is committed in helping to improve the skills needed throughout UK’s Active Leisure, Learning and Well-being sector by providing independent, employer-based, and practical research using the most current information and analysis.

Our research team provides unrivalled insights on the Active Leisure, Learning and Well-being sector across the UK. SkillsActive research has a continuous programme of high quality Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) to provide the industry, stakeholders and partners with timely and essential information.

SkillsActive’s suite of research reports are listed below. Most of the reports can be downloaded for free while but some are available for sale, like Working in Fitness.

Sector Skills Assessment reports

2011   Sector Skills Assessment UK 2011
Sector Skills Assessment England 2011
Sector Skills Assessment Wales 2011
Sector Skills Assessment Scotland 2011
Sector Skills Assessment Northern Ireland 2011
Sector Skills Assessment UK Summary 2011

Previous SSA reports

2010    UK full report
England
Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
UK Summary

Regional Labour Market Assessments (part of SSA suite)

2009    North East England full report
North East summary
Yorkshire and the Humber full report
Yorkshire and the Humber summary
Noth West England full report
North West England summary
East Midlands full report
East Midlands summary
West Midlands full report
West Midlands summary
East of England full report
East of England summary
South East England full report
South East England Summary
South East supplementary research paper
South West England full report
South West Englandsummary
London full report
London summary

Recent Research

2011    Playwork and Childcare: Possible Futures for Playwork in NI
2011 Wales: Directory of training
2011 Scottish FE Review
2009 Active Leisure Workforce in Northern Ireland
2009 South West Progression Pilot

Outdoors

2009    Outdoors Survey
Outdoors summary

Playwork

2010    Playwork People 4
Playwork People 3
Playwork People 2
Playwork People 1
2010 Playwork Graduate research
2007 Children’s views
2005 Benefits of Play and Playwork
2011 Trends in Northern Ireland Childcare
2011 Level 3 Initiative Evaluation (coming soon)
2007 International benchmarking
2010 SkillsActive Awareness and perceptions Survey (coming soon)

Summary / abstract only available. To purchase the full report, please visit our online store:

2010    Working in Fitness
2009 Working in Fitness

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