Events
Workforce Development Solutions Open Day
22 September 2009
Over the last two years Lancashire CC has developed an impressive suite of programmes to generate apprenticeship and work experience opportunities for local communities. These programmes have been very successful in:
- Delivering community ambitions to provide work opportunities for disadvantaged groups and communities.
- Increasing the number of Landcashire CC apprenticeships from 16 positions to 250.
- Improving the diversity and skills profile of the workforce.
- Generating cashable efficiency gains through a transformed HR service.
- Bringing partner contributions together to provide better services and opportunities for job seekers.
North West Employers has organised a third Open Day event providing the opportunity to discuss the ideas, successes and difficulties experienced in delivering the programmes.
The event will take place on Tuesday, 22 September starting at 10am and finishing by 3pm. This event is free of charge to North West local authorities and constituent members of North West Employers. If you are not a member of North West Employers then there will be a fee of £75.00 + VAT for this event.
Click here for further information or to book your place.
Tackling Worklessness Conference: 20 March 2009
Many policy areas and sustainable community strategies have a key aim of improvement for the most disadvantaged communities, which often experience high levels of worklessness. Providing routeways and support into work has a crucial contribution to make towards narrowing the difference in their quality of life compared to other groups locally and nationally. Providing employment opportunities, reducing benefit dependence and improving earning potential within disadvantaged communities will be particularly difficult during a recession.
The conference was designed specifically for Elected Members with relevant portfolios and roles at their authorities. It considered the impact of the recession on local communities and how a local authority may use its position as a major local employer and a community leader to positive effect.
The conference:
- Updated the regional economic position and identified the latest trends.
- Discussed the learning from the national review on worklessness. The Chair of the review, Councillor Stephen Houghton, reviewed how authorities can have a key role in local employment partnerships, tailoring the latest regional and national policy and programme developments for local delivery.
The presentations from all of the speakers are available
here.
Delegates found the conference to be a valuable opportunity to hear and discuss the latest thinking and the different challenges faced in communities across the North West. A delegate evaluation summary is available
here.
CAA Conference
On 28 January 2009, the North West Improvement and Efficiency Partnership, in association with CfLG, and their partners held a Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) event. The
agenda included a summary of the results for the CAA pilot carried out by Stockport MBC, an explanation of the final guidance for the Comprehensive Area Assessment and the lessons learned from the Nottinghamshire two-tier pilots.
Below are copies of the presentation slide packs that were used during the day.
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CAA in a two-tier trial in Nottinghamshire - Peter Elderton, Head of Policy, Partnerships and Performance, Nottinghamshire County Council, and Stephen Bray, Head of Strategy and Performance, Gelding Borough Council
Finally, in preparation for the event, the NWIEP team compiled a briefing paper -
CAA in the North West: a new approach, a new opportunity. The paper provides an initial look at what different public sector bodies in the region are doing to prepare for CAA, and some key messages that are emerging.
Full details can also be obtained from the NWIEP website by clicking
here.