SEMINAR; WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT FROM EMPLOYMENT ZONES ?
Wednesday 31st January 2001
LOCAL ECONOMY POLICY UNIT, SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
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 arrangement
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 initiative
Four Zone Mangers, from very varying locations, each with a different
approach, describe their work, with an academic commentary at the end
of the day.
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 privat/public partnership
between Ernst & Young, the Employemnt Service and Manpowe
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-centered (and client-appreciated) ways of matching
unempoyed 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
THE SEMINAR WILL BE HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY'S WANDSWORTH
ROAD CAMPUS, LONDON SW8.
THE COST FOR INDIVIDUAL UNFUNDED ACADEMICS
IS £60. FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND BOOKING ARRANGEMENTS
SEE THE LEPU WEB SITE;
http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~lepu
Anne Gray, Research Fellow
LEPU
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