Latest News

In this section you will find key news about the welfare to work and adult training and skills sector, from local delivery and national policy level and all things around about and in between (also see archive at the bottom of this page). 

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- September 2011

Patchwork and FutureGov Update

29 September 2011

News item submitted by Lucy Watt of FutureGov. My colleagues are running a project called Patchwork which is a Safeguarding App. You've probably heard of IT applications that enable multi a… More…

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Innovation Fund Short List

23 September 2011

DWP have released a short list of bidders from the first round of Innovation Fund bids.  Organisations were invited to submit bids, with social investment at the heart of the model, to support&nb… More…

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ERSA Supply Chain Forum

22 September 2011

ERSA have stepped up to the plate and held the inaugral meeting of their new Supply Chain Forum.  As members of the Merlin Standard Advisory Board, ERSA is able to take key messages from the supp… More…

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Policy Exchange - Nail in the Coffin for JCP?

20 September 2011

Personalised welfare: rethinking employment support and Jobcentres is a new report published by Policy Exchange, which suggests that there are serious problems with JCP in regard to customer and emplo… More…

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Employers Attitudes to Disabled People

16 September 2011

Yesterday saw the publication of a qualitative evaluation by DWP into the behaviour of employers during recruitment with regard to employing disabled people. It's not a huge study (60 interviews) b… More…

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Latest Unemployment Data - Not Encouraging

14 September 2011

The latest unemployment figures out today show the number of people unemployed in the UK increasing by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, with unemployment now at 7.9%.  This i… More…

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Adult & Community Learning Projects 2011

9 September 2011

NIACE have released details of the successful projects that have been awarded a combined £2.25 million under the ACL budget.  There is a whole host of interesting local projects, many of wh… More…

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New Enterprise Allowance

8 September 2011

Names such as Wenta,  Blue Orchid Management Consultants Ltd, Business in the Community, local Enterprise Agencies, Chambers of Commerce and councils appear alongside familiar names such as A4e,… More…

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Outcome Stars and Payment by Results

6 September 2011

Triangle Consulting are carrying out research into payment by results and the Outcomes Star. The original Outcome Star for Homelessness developed for the London Housing Federation paved the way for de… More…

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Work-Focused Services in Children's Centres

5 September 2011

Between January 2009 and March 2011 JCP offered a Personal Adviser service within 30 children's centres across the country to help parents move into work.  In some areas the relationship has been… More…

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