Co-ordinated health, skills and employment services for people with health needs

The need for health, skills and employment services to be co-ordinated and integrated is a key issue identified across Government Departments and agencies. Getting people with health problems back to work and keeping them in work is a particularly challenging priority as unemployment levels rise.

Starts on	03/09/2009
Location	London

The Government’s Fit for Work pilots, Progression through Partnership strategy for people with mental health difficultiesand other key developments including Integrated Employment and Skills trials are focused on creating better co-ordination of services so that individuals are supported more effectively.

This workshop will provide the opportunity to build ideas to put policy in to practice, using tools and approaches that are helping partners to design and deliver more effective and integrated health, skills and employment services.In particular, it will enable you to:

Understand the specific roles that health, skills and employment focused partners need to make for particular groups of people with health needs.
Hear about some examples of how integrated health, skills and employment services are being developed.
Get information on tools and approaches that can help take forward practical ideas after the workshop – including Licence to Skill 2009 and the JHC Integrated Planning Matrix
Strategies for developing capacity including partnership working and joining up funding

Places and Dates

3 September 2009 – London

Workshop leader

Nick Wilson, JH Consulting

Price

Private sector£245

Public sector and academic institutions£195

Charity, voluntary sector and not-for-profit£145

Thank you.