Presentations from London's Welfare to Work Convention 2010

17 March, 2010The Brewery, London

Breakout Session 1-5: Planning for...

• Apprenticeships, Negat Lodhi, National Apprenticeship Service
• Adult Advancement and Careers Service, including skills and accounts, Maggie Roy and Anne Wilding, Learning and Skills Council
• A low carbon economy, Stephen Evans and Jacqui Wordsworth, LDA
• An inclusive recovery for London, Steve Woodward, Working Links
• The Economic Recovery, Judith Rutherford, LSEB

Plenary: Key challenges for London

• Dave Simmonds, Inclusion
• Stephen Evans, LDA

Breakout sessions 6-10: Improving partnership and performance

• Bridging the gap between health and employment services: Expanding on the Pathways to Work experience, Jenny Ross and Jack Sawyer, Ingeus
• IES Into Work Trials and roll out, Helen Scott, Jobcentre Plus and Sarah Lang, Nextstep
• Creating a high performing supply chain: the Merlin Standard and the West London Working Employability Performance Rating, Simon Shimmens, DWP and Sarah Wilkins, West London Working
• Local Employer Engagement, Helen Payne, Shared Intelligence and Jane Sherwood, Newham Council

Plenary: Working for young Londoners

• Jack Morris, Business Design Centre Group and LSEB Member
• Councillor Nick Stanton, London Councils' Executive Member for Children and Young People

Breakout sessions 11-15: Youth unemployment

• Delivering Future Jobs Fund with employment support: The Haringey Guarantee, Martin Tucker, Ambrose Quashie and Paul Clarke, Haringey Council
• Supporting disadvantaged young people into work: new third sector approaches, Steve Kerr and Alison Blackwood, LVSC, Michael Fothergill, OSW and Maeve McGoldrick, Community Links
• Closing the ethnic minority employment gap, Frank Anti, BTEG
• Employers building strong partnerships - supporting young people through the Accord, Graham Edgar, Miriam Lewis, Liz Obertelli and Perry Morgan