Presentations from Welfare to Work 2008 Convention

Day 1 11.30-12.30: Community Cohesion - is the concept of Community Direct Centres the answer?

Debbie Ryan, Working Links

Day 1 11.30-12.30: Community Cohesion - is the concept of Community Direct Centres the answer?

Debbie Ryan, Working Links

Day 1 11.30-12.30: ERSA: Partnership Working Across the Private and Voluntary Sector

Fran Parry and Stuart Knowles, ERSA; Helen Robinson, The Salvation Army; Carole Carson, Intraining Employability; Mary Cripps-Warwick, Careers Development Group; Sorcha Faherty, TNG; David Heaney, Maximus

Day 1 11.30-12.30: Greater Manchester Multi Area Agreement

Mike Emmerich, Manchester Enterprises

Day 1 11.30-12.30: Health, Work and Well-being after the Black Review

Clement Van-De-Coevering, Department for Work and Pensions

Day 1 11.30-12.30: Lone Parents: Smoothing the Way to Work

David Lythall, Jobcentre Plus; Andy Hunsley, Sarah Loveday and Sarah Timms, A4e; Nigel Purkis, One Parent Families|Gingerbread, and Lisa McIntosh, Jobcentre Plus (Beds & Herts)

Day 1 11.30-12.30: Lone Parents: Smoothing the Way to Work

David Lythall, Jobcentre Plus; Andy Hunsley, Sarah Loveday and Sarah Timms, A4e; Nigel Purkis, One Parent Families|Gingerbread, and Lisa McIntosh, Jobcentre Plus (Beds & Herts)

Day 1 11.30-12.30: Lone Parents: Smoothing the Way to Work

David Lythall, Jobcentre Plus; Andy Hunsley, Sarah Loveday and Sarah Timms, A4e; Nigel Purkis, One Parent Families|Gingerbread, and Lisa McIntosh, Jobcentre Plus (Beds & Herts)

Day 1 11.30-12.30: Lone Parents: Smoothing the Way to Work

David Lythall, Jobcentre Plus; Andy Hunsley, Sarah Loveday and Sarah Timms, A4e; Nigel Purkis, One Parent Families|Gingerbread, and Lisa McIntosh, Jobcentre Plus (Beds & Herts)

Day 1 11.30-12.30: Lone Parents: Smoothing the Way to Work

David Lythall, Jobcentre Plus; Andy Hunsley, Sarah Loveday and Sarah Timms, A4e; Nigel Purkis, One Parent Families|Gingerbread, and Lisa McIntosh, Jobcentre Plus (Beds & Herts)

Day 1 11.30-12.30: New Deal for Carers

Alex Fox, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers

Day 1 11.30-12.30: Spotlight in Salford - A neighbourhood approach to tackling worklessness

Emily Kynes and Matthew Ainsworth, Salford City Council; Mary Wilde, Jobcentre Plus

Day 1 11.30-12.30: Welfare Reform

Stephen Martin, Department for Work and Pensions

Day 1 12.30 - 13.30: Cities and Jobs: a new approach to takling worklessness

Faiza Shaheen and Adam Marshall, Centre for Cities

Day 1 12.30 - 13.30: Cities and Jobs: a new approach to takling worklessness

Faiza Shaheen and Adam Marshall, Centre for Cities

Day 1 12.30 - 13.30: Developing Integrated Skills and Employment Pathways: The Experiience of the London Employability Pilots

Alan McChleery, Learning & Skills Council; Jo Hudek, JH Consulting

Day 1 12.30 - 13.30: Employment and Support Allowance

Phil Bartlett, Jobcentre Plus

Day 1 12.30 - 13.30: International Lessons on Employment for Offenders

Craig Watt, Inclusion; Steve Pitts, Ministry of Justice; Katarzyna Jacek, Adam Mickiewicz University

Day 1 12.30 - 13.30: Lone Parent Obligations

Kevin Jackson, Department for Work and Pensions; David Keir, Jobcentre Plus; Nigel Purkis, One Parent Families|Gingerbread

Day 1 12.30 - 13.30: Problems in the Delivery of Benefits, Tax Credits and Employment Services

Prof. Dan Finn, University of Portsmouth; Dr. Jo Casebourne, Inclusion

Day 1 13.30 - 14.30: Adult Advancement and Careers Service

Louise Proctor, Learning & Skills Council

Day 1 13.30 - 14.30: Developing a Positive Enterprise and Employment Culture in our most Deprived Neighbourhoods

Jane Malbasa, Coventry and Warwickshire District Jobcentre Plus; Carl Pearson, Coventry City Council; Dianne Williams, Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce

Day 1 13.30 - 14.30: Financial Inclusion

Damon Gibbons, Inclusion; Colin Purtill, Department for Work and Pensions

Day 1 13.30 - 14.30: Housing Providers Tackling Worklessness: Effective delivery to hard to reach clients

Andy Sheilds, St Mungos; Nicola Doherty, Renaisi; Nadine Malik, London Borough of Hackney; Jonathan Baldrey, Talent: at Work; Nuala Geary, Peabody Trust

Day 1 13.30 - 14.30: Integrating Employment and Skills

Gareth Thomas, Learning & Skills Council

Day 1 13.30 - 14.30: Lessons from City Strategies

Sue Jarvis, Knowsley MBC; Boyd Wood, Department for Work and Pensions

Day 1 13.30 - 14.30: Lessons from City Strategies - Part 2

Sue Jarvis, Knowsley MBC; Boyd Wood, Department for Work and Pensions

Day 1 13.30 - 14.30: Progress2Work - the Merseyside Approach

Mhairi Doyle, Jobcentre Plus

Day 1 13.30 - 14.30: Star Rating

David Bateman and Andy Tucker, Department for Work and Pensions

Day 1 14.30 - 15.30: Child Poverty: Everybody's Business

Paul Dornan, Child Poverty Action Group; Alex Beer, Department for Children, Schools and Families/ Department for Work and Pensions, Child Poverty Unit; Paul Bivand, Inclusion

Day 1 14.30 - 15.30: Choice and Voice in Welfare Reform

Jane Mansour, Ingeus/ WorkDirections

Day 1 14.30 - 15.30: Delivering Employability Provision - New Ways of Working with DWP

Pat Russell, Department for Work and Pensions

Day 1 14.30 - 15.30: Lessons from Tyne and Wear City Strategy - Employer Engagement

Donna Tate and Mark Barrett, Tyne and Wear City Region Employment Consortium

Day 1 14.30 - 15.30: Mental Health and Employment

David Cain and Sallie White, West Sussex Works

Day 1 14.30 - 15.30: Reaching out to IB Customers via GP Surgeries

Lynn McMahon, Jobcentre Plus

Day 1 14.30 - 15.30: The Jobcentre Plus Approach to Partnerships

Denise Horsfall, Jobcentre Plus

Day 1 14.30 - 15.30: The Northern Way Employment Programme: lessons and implications for future policy and practice

Ian Atkinson, ECOTEC

Day 1 14.30 - 15.30: Welfare to Work in Australia: What have we learnt?

Michael Horn, Brotherhood of St Lawrence (Australia); Prof. Dan Finn, University of Portsmouth

Day 1 15.30 - 16.30: Challenges 2009: Make or Break?

Dave Simmonds, Inclusion

Day 1 15.30 - 16.30: Charles Dickens - Hard Times or Great Expectations?

Linda Taylor and Leona Hill, Jobcentre Plus and Portsmouth Council

Day 1 15.30 - 16.30: Gradual Return to Work for Incapacity Benefit Claimants

Ed Ashton, Guernsey Social Security Department

Day 1 15.30 - 16.30: Housing and Worklessness

Annie Finnis, WorkDirections; Jane Malbasa and Sarah Crawley, Jobcentre Plus Coventry

Day 1 15.30 - 16.30: Lessons from the Women into Non Traditional Sectors Project (Belfast)

Isaac May and Heather Louden, Belfast City Council; Alan McCully, Translink

Day 1 15.30 - 16.30: Lessons from the Women into Non Traditional Sectors Project (Belfast)

Isaac May and Heather Louden, Belfast City Council; Alan McCully, Translink

Day 1 15.30 - 16.30: Localising Child Poverty - the Knowsley and Islington Council Partnership

Martin Baillie, Islington Borough Council; David Vandivier, Islington Strategic Partnership; Tracy Fishwick, Knowsley MBC

Day 1 15.30 - 16.30: Localising Child Poverty - the Knowsley and Islington Council Partnership

Martin Baillie, Islington Borough Council; David Vandivier, Islington Strategic Partnership; Tracy Fishwick, Knowsley MBC

Day 1 15.30 - 16.30: Skills Accounts

Jon Dalton, Learning & Skills Council

Day 1 15.30 - 16.30: Supporting 'Unemployable' Offenders into Work - Merseyside Probation Project. Sharing Learning from PS Plus 3 in delivering employment focused services to offenders

Dave Christian and Heather Ross, Ministry of Justice

Day 1 15.30 - 16.30: Using Regeneration to Tackle Worklessness

Roger Wilshaw, Department for Communities and Local Government; Lynn Cooper, Department for Work and Pensions

Day 1 16.30 - 17.30: Closing Day 1 Address

Alan Cave, Delivery Director, Welfare to Work Equality Group, Department for Work and Pensions; Chris Humphries, Cheif Executive, UK Commission for Employment and Skills; (Chair) Dave Simmonds, Inclusion

Day 1 17.30 - 18.30: Creating Positive Attitudinal Change and Building Efficacy

Richie Cameron, Head of Public Sector, The Pacific Institute; Kim Parry, Head of Employment Programmes, Liverpool Council

Day 1 Fringe Session, 17.30: Worklessness: terms and conditions

Yvonne Davies, Chief Executive, Birmingham CAB; Candy Passmore, Policy and Communications Manager, BVSC; John McPhail, Policy and Communications Co-ordinator, BVSC

Day 2 09.40 - 10.30: Opening Plenary

Lesley Strathie, Chief Executive, Jobcentre Plus; Chris Banks, Chair, Learning & Skills Council; Dave Simmonds, Inclusion (Chair)

Day 2 10.30 - 11.30: Apprenticeships

Steve Price, Learning & Skills Council

Day 2 10.30 - 11.30: Football Works

Craig McManus, Falkirk Football Club Solutions; Derek Russell, Jobcentre Plus; James Gore, Matthew Gore and Kent Mayall, Inspire 2 Independence

Day 2 10.30 - 11.30: Pathways to Work Evaluation - Key Messages

Maria Strudwick, Department for Work and Pensions; Richard Dorsett, Policy Studies Institute

Day 2 10.30 - 11.30: Web Based Self Service for the Department for Work and Pensions customers

Ian Williams, Department for Work and Pensions

Day 2 10.30 - 11.30: Welfare Reform: Integrating Employment and Skills, the challenges for Scotland and Wales

Linda Badman, Jobcentre Plus Wales; Alastair MacDonald, Jobcentre Plus Scotland

Day 2 10.30 - 11.30: Working Neighbourhood Fund and Local Area Agreements

Martin Betts, Department for Work and Pensions; Paul Kirk, Department for Communities and Local Government

Day 2 10.30 - 11.30: Working Ventures UK: Working with employers to make a difference

Neville Cavendish, Colin Geering and Mike Brogan, Working Ventures UK

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: Increasing Employment Rates for Ethnic Minorities

Harrylynne Coleman, Jobcentre Plus; Dr. Jo Casebourne, Inclusion

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: Increasing Employment Rates for Ethnic Minorities

Harrylynne Coleman, Jobcentre Plus; Dr. Jo Casebourne, Inclusion

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: Integrating Client and Business Data

Pippa Brosgarth and Matthew Gordon, Hanlon Software Solutions

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: Netherlands new Work and Social Assistance Act

Elleke Davidse, Deputy Head of the Directorate for Work and Benefits, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, Netherlands

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: Netherlands new Work and Social Assistance Act

Elleke Davidse, Deputy Head of the Directorate for Work and Benefits, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, Netherlands

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: Real Choices - Tackling Child Poverty in Cornwall

James Hardy, Jobcentre Plus

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: Real Choices - Tackling Child Poverty in Cornwall

James Hardy, Jobcentre Plus

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: Self Employment - A sustainable solution for New Deal customers

Alex Pollock, InBiz

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: Skills Pledge

Rebecca Rhodes, Learning & Skills Council

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: Tackling Vulnerable Employment

Nicola Smith, TUC

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: Tackling Vulnerable Employment

Nicola Smith, TUC

Day 2 12.15 - 13.00: What is the Flexible New Deal?

Paul Fisher, Department for Work and Pensions

Day 2 13.00 - 13.45: DWP Procurement and the Skills Funding Agency: the future of employment and skills provision?

Paul Warner, Association of Learning Providers

Day 2 13.00 - 13.45: Engaging Business in Employment and Skills

Anne Willmot and Debra Shaw, BITC; Tanya Cooper and Rebecca Atherton, Royal Mail

Day 2 13.00 - 13.45: International Perspectives on Sustainable Employment

Robert Melia, The Mentor Network (USA); Nigel Talbot, Four Star (Netherlands); Richard Holt, Juniper Training

Day 2 13.00 - 13.45: Journey to Work

Nicola Cape and Judith Rimell, 2Together NHS Foundation Trust & JCP

Day 2 13.00 - 13.45: Local Employment Partnerships: Promoting success through employers and what do employers want?

Karen Lambert, Jobcentre Plus; Val Lowman, BeOnsite/Bovis Lend

Day 2 13.00 - 13.45: Supporting Offenders into Work

Vanessa Hughes, Jobcentre Plus; Nicky Pearson, Jobcentre Plus

Day 2 13.00 - 13.45: Supporting Offenders into Work

Vanessa Hughes, Jobcentre Plus; Nicky Pearson, Jobcentre Plus

Day 2 13.45 - 14.30: Employment and Skills Boards: Learning from London

Stephen Evans, London Development Agency

Day 2 13.45 - 14.30: Flexible New Deal: Making it work

Ian Mulheirn, Social Market Foundation

Day 2 13.45 - 14.30: Integrating Employment and Skills: DWP and DIUS working together

Chris Barnham, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills; Richard Given, Department for Work and Pensions

Day 2 13.45 - 14.30: Local Challenges: Partnership Solutions

Paul Whitehurst, Jobcentre Plus; Heather Lee, Gateshead Council; Karen Alexander, Sunderland Council

Day 2 13.45 - 14.30: Making the Employability Skills Programme Work for Londoners

Ian Dewar, Jobcentre Plus; Wesley Clark, Learning & Skills Council; Shona Duncan, Metropole College

Day 2 13.45 - 14.30: Managing a Complex Supply Chain and Working in Partnership to Deliver Flexible New Deal

Chris Melvin, Reed in Partnership

Day 2 13.45 - 14.30: Service to Employers - Local Employment Partnerships

Sue Veszpremi, Jobcentre Plus

Day 2 13.45 - 14.30: The Cities Strategy: benefits and barriers - the experience so far

Matthew Crighton, Capital City Partnership, Edinburgh