Apologies for cross posting.
A few places are still available on this seminar in London, organised
by the Local Economy Policy Unit (Lepu), South Bank University.
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT FROM EMPLOYMENT ZONES?
Wed 31st Jan 2001 South Bank University, Wandsworth Rd, London SW8
2JZ (020 7815 7798)
The pilot round of Employment Zones was a seed bed for experimentation
in helping unemployed people back to work. The fifteen further Zones
set up in 2000 build on this experience, with new approaches to job
seekers' mobility, incentives and partnership structures. This
seminar considers what works best in providing useful programmes and
delivery arrangements.
It compares the 'job account' with more conventional funding
arrangements, reviews the best ways of helping job seekers with
transport, and discusses whether mandatory participation works. It
also considers necessary arrangements for good
private/public/voluntary sector co-ordination, and how to integrate
Zones with SRB and other local initiatives. Four Zone Mangers, from
varying locations, each with a different approach, describe their
work, with an academic commentary at the day's end.
Jane Griffiths, Haringey EZ presents the 'Reed in Partnership'
perspective. The Partnership, which managers four new Zones, has been
involved with welfare to work programmes over the past three years,
with seven thousand placements to date. Denise MaGuire from
Southwark EZ, one of eight Zones run by 'Working Links', identifies
lessons from this private/public partnership between Ernst & Young,
the Employment Service and Manpower.
Meg Hankinson, Nottingham EZ discusses the experience of another
private/public operation, this involving 'Working Links' and
Nottingham City Council. Cathy Henderson from North Wales EZ, which
covers a large mixed rural/urban area, offers some distinctive,
practical, flexibly funded, client-centred (and client-appreciated)
ways of matching unemployed people with appropriate jobs.
Martin Jones , University of Aberystwyth Institute of Earth Sciences
and Geography, from the team commissioned by the DfEE to evaluate
prototype Employment Zones, considers the merits of the 'work first'
approach to reintegrating unemployed people into jobs. Finally,
Anne Gray, Local Economy Policy Unit, South Bank University, who has
been researching welfare to work policies for many years, will place
the latest developments into context.
PROGRAMME
09:45 Registration, tea & coffee
10:00 At the Coalface - Employment Zones in Practice (1)
Jane Griffiths, Haringey EZ
10:30 Questions & discussion
10:50 Tea & Coffee
11:15 Employment Zones in Practice (2)
Denise Maguire, Southwark EZ
11:45 Questions & discussion
12:00 Employment Zones in Practice (3)
Meg Hankinson, Nottingham EZ
12:30 Questions & discussion
12:50 LUNCH
13:50 Employment Zones in Practice (4)
Cathy Henderson, N Wales EZ
14:20 Questions & discussion
14:40 Tea & Coffee
15:00 Reviewing the Employment Zones
Martin Jones, University of Aberystwyth
Anne Gray, South Bank University
15:30 Questions & discussion
16:00 Close
Price: £165 private/public sector £65 voluntary sector
To book, call LEPU on 020 7815 7706 or fax (020 7815 7799)
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Reduced price for website bookings (www.sbu.ac.uk/~lepu).
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Peter North
Local Economy Policy Unit
South Bank University, London
Tel: 020 7815-7706
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Website: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~lepu/
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