Effective information, advice and guidance as part of successful employment and skills pathways for adults

With the launch of the prototype Adult Advancement Networks, and skills health checks, there is a clear steer from Government that training and employment advice should not be delivered in a vacuum but as a key part of an integrated offer.

This highly participative workshop will help organisations to understand how they can be at the forefront of this policy driver by helping you to develop practical ideas and actions that you can put into practice to bring results for your customers and business benefits for your organisation.

Our starting point for this workshop will be to identify the context within which advice and guidance needs to be given: recognising the barriers different groups of clients face, and the different requirements of training providers and employers to ensure clients’ expectations can be met.

The workshop will include identifying the range of different partners that advice and guidance organisations will find beneficial to work in close association with, as well the wider infrastructure of employment and training planning agencies and providers which, stitched together, will provide integrated pathways for clients, including those furthest way from the labour market.

As part of the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to develop their own personal plans to apply the ideas explored within their own local areas.

• Understand the key role that IAG plays within an integrated employment and skills system
• Understand the partnerships that need to maximise the effectiveness of IAG services
• Increased knowledge of the other services that need to work with IAG – health, business support etc.
• A personal plan for participants to apply the ideas explored in the workshop
• Learn more about tools that can help you to put your ideas into practice – including Licence to Skill 2009

Places and dates

27 July 2009 – Inclusion

7 September 2009 – Sheffield

Workshop leaders

Susan Underhill, JH Consulting

Nick Wilson, JH Consulting

Price

Private sector£245

Public sector and academic institutions£195

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