Tackling Worklessness

Unemployment has reached 2.62 million, the highest figure for seventeen years*. With the Coalition’s welfare reforms looking to move thousands of claimants off benefits and into sustainable employment, innovative and joined-up methods of stimulating the job market and training and up-skilling individuals are essential.

Capita’s 7th National Tackling Worklessness Conference addresses the main challenges and opportunities. As the Government targets a community based approach to unemployment, and with new developments in the Get Britain Working Campaign, this timely event brings together the key departments, organisations, and individuals setting and implementing worklessness policy and programmes.

With input from the Department for Work and Pensions and Jobcentre Plus this conference covers the most important issues including:

•  The progress of the Work Programme and the role of work academies
•  Learning outcomes from a Co-Design Pilot area on multi-agency approaches to worklessness
• The impact of Welfare Reform on welfare to work programmes
• Looking at the developing role of private sector investment in creating jobs and supporting training

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear the most recent national policy, to develop strategies for reducing unemployment and increasing sustainable opportunities to boost economic growth in your area.

*Office for National Statistics – September 2011

• Hear from the Department for Work and Pensions on the latest Get Britain Working policy and developments within the Work Programme
• Learn the most effective methods of partnership working between housing providers, charities and the private sector in the delivery of skills and work-related training
• Understand the role Local Enterprise Partnerships and Social Enterprises can play in creating jobs locally
• Gain insight from a successful scheme engaging with ex-offenders and prospective employers in overcoming barriers to accessing work
• Explore the future of welfare to work schemes and the potential role of the Institute of Employability Professionals
• Examine a Housing Association’s innovative approach to providing tailored training and support