Events > Presentations: Welfare to Work UK Convention 2009
Presentations: Welfare to Work UK Convention 2009
Arena Convention Centre, Liverpool
16/17 June, 2009
Presentations from Tuesday 16 June 2009
Plenary transcripts
Rt Hon Yvette Cooper
Rt Hon Theresa May
Tuesday 16 June 2009, 11:00-12:00
- Responding to the Economic Climate, Adam Sharples
- Coventry City Council and Jobcentre Plus working in partnership to deliver the Local Employment Partnership targets, Carol Jones and Gaynor Smith
- Pre-employment training and sector routeways, Jenny Herdman and Ian Palmer
- To small to prime to big to sub, Doug Low
- Improving health, work and well being:-The Government's Approach, James McEwen and Chris Hicks
- Job retention and workforce development, Stephen McCarron
- Fast track to Enterprise, Terry Owens
- Care Sector: Busting the Myths, Colin Billingsley and Angela Davies 17060913151400rm9.ppt
- White City Works, Maria Kyriacou
- Work Focussed Services in Childrens Centres, Bal Virdee, Julie Hunt and Moira Start
- What should the next Government do about the highest levels of unemployment for a generation? Lawrence Kay
Tuesday 16 June 2009, 12:00-13:00
Tuesday 16 June 2009, 13:00-13:45
- Employment & Skills Boards Uncovered, Martin Swales, David Kirkham and Shona Duncan
- New ways of working & provider engagement meetings, Rob Murdoch, Matthew Lester and Cathy Hughes
- Lessons from across the Atlantic: Subsidised Employment and FND, Kay Sutton and Grant Collins
- Lone parent obligations: lessons from other countries, Dan Finn, Dr Jo Casebourne and Rosie Gloster
- Employment Benefits from the Olympic Legacy, Boyd Wood and Anne Lines
- Supporting Carers to Care: DWP's support to carers, Ruth Lewis
- Creating sustainable jobs through social enterprise, Sally Reynolds
- Northern Ireland Approach to Welfare to Work, Tom Mervyn and Catherine Livingstone
- Skills for life and the 3 e's: Employability, Employees, Employers, Jo Booth
- Now it's personal: Personal advisers and the new public service workforce, Dalia Ben-Galim
Tuesday 16 June 2009, 13:45-14:30
- Procurement and Welfare to Work, Dave Neilson
- Preventing & Tackling Child Poverty Beacons - making child poverty everybody's business, Richard Williams, Carol Hambling, Carmel Littleton & Layla Richards
- Adviser Flexibilities, Kerry Belfield, Michelle Alton & Andy Pidluznj
- Helping disabled people to get and keep jobs-An introduction to Access to Work, Right to Control and the new Department for Work and Pensions Specialist Disability Employment Provision, Stephen Lismore
- Drugs, employment and social reintegration, Khadir Meer & Mike Stewart
- In and out of work project, Steve Dunn, Andy Warburton & Sue Dexter
- Department for Work and Pensions Financial Inclusion Team, Mick Johnson & John Cray
- Improving your take up through marketing...and how to adapt to the economic downturn, Leone Hill & Delia Howes
- City Strategy Initiatives for Tackling Worklessness, Gareth Matthews & Kim Chaplain
Tuesday 16 June 2009, 15:30-16:30
- Additional help for jobseekers: the Future Jobs Fund and Young Person's Guarantee, Julia Sweeney
- Tackling child poverty locally: new expectations - new support, Sally Knock, Richard Williams & Michelle Kennedy
- Provider Led Pathways to Work Taskforce, Dorothy Crook & Mark Staley
- Real Help Now: Recently announced Pre-Employment Provision programmes, Dr Gareth Thomas
- Supporting Local Authorities to tackle worklessness through the recession, Alex Murray
- Time to reassess your labour market: what the recession means locally, Paul Bivand
- Professional and Executive Recruitment in Glasgow, Alison Campbell
- Spring Board-Partnership Working Stirling Jobcentre and Citizens Advice Bureau, Tony McGoldrick, Jacqui Gibson and Craig Anderson
- Understanding the needs of employers, Chris Melvin, Peter Bramhall & Richard Gallagher
- Using procurement to promote equality and to increase performance, Tunde Banjoko CBE & Richard Johnson
Presentations from Wednesday 17 June 2009
Wednesday 17 June 2009, 09:15-10:15
Wednesday 17 June 2009, 10:15-11:15
- Additional help for jobseekers: the Future Jobs Fund and Young Person's Guarantee, Julia Sweeney
- Welfare to Work: Lone parents need more than just a job, Nigel Purkis and Steve Harding
- Tackling rising worklessness in London, Stephen Evans
- Tenant Engagement and into Work, Diana Towler, Nev Wells and Jane Malbasa
- Out stationing conducting Jobcentre plus work in Provider premises, Simon Boyle and Becs Martin
- Prison Industries - Improving the employability of offenders, meeting the needs of employers, Lance Harris
- What Works: Lessons from a review of Job Creation Programmes, Intermediate Labour Markets and Transitional Employment Programmes, Professor Dan Finn
- WorkDirections Presents...Devolution in Welfare to Work and Parental Employment, Annie Finnis and Hannah Jordan
- Public, Private and Third Sector Partnerships, Gurbux Singh and David Richardson
Wednesday 17 June 2009, 11:15-12:15
- The Skills Funding Agency: the vision and its implication for providers, David Cragg
- Responding to the Economic Climate, Adam Sharples
- Department for Work and Pensions Code of Conduct and MERLIN Standard, Lucy Williams and Simon Shimmens
- Modernising Provider Referrals and Payments, Chris Peters and Barbara Brown
- Auditing progress in welfare to work, Dr Ruth Lewis
- What happened to those people we helped? -local client management information systems, David Coyne and Matthew Crighton
- Towards self-employment - A partnership between Jobcentre Plus and Business Link East, Keith Hughes and Liz Hand
- Narrowing the ethnic minority employment gap, Jenni Martin, Carol O'Callaghan and Stephanie Baron
- How Serco built a model, created a budget and agreed subcontractor terms for Flexible New Deal, Sean Williams and Richard Judge
Wednesday 17 June 2009, 13:15-14:00
Wednesday 17 June 2009, 14:00-14:45
- City Strategy Pathfinders - Lessons Learned, Kathryn McHugh, Stephen Munn and Angela Newton
- Skills response to the economic downturn, Paul Holme
- Welfare to Work Initiatives: Personalised Employment Programme and Invest to Save, Diane Reeve, Darren Bird and Helen Musgrove
- Working Neighbourhood Teams, Chris Marsh and Matthew Ainsworth
- UK Commission for Employment and Skills: Ambition 2020, Mark Spilsbury
- The PPVP model: Performance through collective expertise, Stephen Nation-Tellery, Sian James and Luanne Rimmer
- Practical Partnerships: Lewisham Strategic Partnership's Tackling Worklessness and the Coventry Local Jobs Initiative, Mark Maddison and Liz Barrett
- United States: Jobs and the Road to Recovery, Natalie Branosky
- Role of vocational learning in enabling active engagement and break-through in drug treatment, Eleanor Levy
