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Workforce Futures Partnership

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Partnership information

Description

Workforce diversity

Aim

The aim of the Workforce Futures Partnership was to develop lifelong learning and inclusive work practices to encourage recruitment and retention of those people at risk from discrimination in the labour market. The priority was to engage small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the pilot projects.

Objectives

The objectives were:

  • To develop an employer-focused model, aimed at SMEs, addressing the “business case” for improved recruitment, retention and workforce development.

  • To focus on the interface between demand and supply to ensure sustainable employment.

  • To focus intervention on bottlenecks in employment to facilitate entry and re-entry into the labour market.

  • To create new partnership approaches for co-ordinated intervention as a means to enable SMEs to integrate equal opportunities and empowerment in human resource strategies.

  • To work with transnational partners to develop new joint models of best practice for socially inclusive human resource strategies relevant to the needs of SMEs.
Background

The DP was initiated by the South London Learning Skills Council (LSC) and was formed in 2001 as a strategic partnership including 11 key delivery partners. There were 5 key pilot projects with a focus on recruitment, retention and training.

Round

1

Lead partner

South London Learning and Skills Council

Core partners

Business and Education London south Isles, Business Link for London, CB1-London Region, Croydon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Disability Alliance Merton, Employments service (London), GMB Southern Region, Kingston University, Learn Direct London South, London Borough Of Bromley, London Borough of Croyden, London Borough of Merton, London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames, Merton College, Prospects, Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames, Slemba South London Ethnic Minority Business Association, Solomon Society of London Manufacturers, South London and Wandle Valley Partnership, South London Economic Development Alliance Sleda, South London Learning and Skills Council, South London Learning Partnership, South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, South west London Workforce Development confederation, Sutton Centre for Voluntary Service, Sutton Regeneration Partnership, Wandsworth Borough Council

Transnational partnerships

Information for Transnational partnerships

Contact

Antony Twigg, South London Learning and Skills Council,

End-dates

Action 2: 14 May 2005
Action 3: 14 November 2005

Equal theme

Lifelong learning and inclusive working practices

Beneficiaries

Employed in SMEs, Jobseekers with low basic skills, Labour market returnees, People over 50, Unemployed

Achievements

The partnership encouraged companies to develop distinct and competitive competencies to raise human capital attainment and productivity levels. The SMEs were supported in meeting their employment and labour market needs by bespoke matching services and financial incentives.

On a sub-regional level, The Workforce Futures Partnership brought together major stakeholders - academics, policy-makers, corporate actors, the community and voluntary sector, and public bodies, for example - to explore ways of developing training to support people with multiple barriers to employment or job retention.

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Connections

Connections

Main outputs

Print
Effective Sustainable Frameworks for Lifelong LearningThis report included case studies and a framework for lifelong learning structures and projects that empower disadvantaged groups in the workplace.

Activities and products

Activity
Business Round Tables & Equalities SeminarsThis project gave managers the opportunity to talk to other business managers and feel some kind of empathy with a group who could sympathise with each other over the problems they face.Expand/collapse Products (2)
Activity
Equal Business Case for Diversity Research projectThis is the final report of the Equal Business Case for Diversity Research project.Expand/collapse Products (1)
Activity
Interactive Action Research ProgrammeThe partnership sought to empower owner / managers by engaging them in an ‘interactive’, ‘joint learning’, process that benefited them at the same time as developing understanding in relation to the research themes.Expand/collapse Products (2)
Activity
The Personnel Plus ServiceThe Personnel Plus Service was delivered by the Business Link for London during June 2003 – May 2005 with support from the Equal Opportunity Initiative It aimed to formalise key HR processes, including recruitment & selection (including the development of job descriptions, job profiles, person ‘specs’, and interviewing techniques); and performance management. The HR Locum Service,.Expand/collapse Products (1)
Print
A New Inclusive Partnership for Promoting Equality and Diversity through Maximising Workforce PotentThis report was commissioned by the London South Learning & Skills Council on behalf of the Workforce Futures Partnership.
Forum/panel
Building an Equal EuropeThis event was held in January 2005 in Birmingham.
Print
Debating the Business Case for Diversity - A Path National Ltd Equal Diversity SeminarHeld in London in October 2004, this event gave the stakeholders, partners and beneficiaries of the Equal programme the opportunity to discuss the business case for diversity from Path National Ltd and the Equal programme in South London.
Print
Diversity and Empowerment in the WorkplaceHeld in April 2005, in Stockholm, Partners exchanged experience and best practice during 2003 and 2004 to undertake innovative joint development for solutions which addressed the needs of both employers and the workforce in relation to diversity and equality of opportunity in the workplace.
Website
Diversity Kit for SMEsIdentifies strategies for developing the workforce and includes case studies of good practice.
Print
Effective Recruitment to Improve your Bottom LineThis event was held in February 2005, in Croydon.
Print
Empowerment: What it is and why should we care?This is a discussion document by P Garside at CERI, Kingston University for the Work-Life Futures Partnership.
Print
European Work-Life Futures PartnershipThis was held in April 2005 during the Employment Week Exhibition at Les Pyramides, Brussels.
Print
Evaluation and Learning to Achieve EmpowermentThis report brings together findings from research with SMEs with insights into their business drivers and responses, particularly relating to staffing, HR decision making processes, business support networks and local economic circumstances.
Print
Focus Group on "The Business Case for Diversity - A Product for SMEs in South London?"Held in March 2005 in Croydon, this event related to the Business Case for Diversity Product.
Print
Getting the Best from your PeopleThis event was held in November 2004 in Croydon.
CD-ROM
Intermediary Competency ModelThis mini-website and interactive questionnaire examined the role and function of the intermediary as a mentor and mediator for both employers and target workforce groups.
Print
Mental Health and the Disability Discrimination Act in Post-16 LearningThis event was held in February 2005, in Croydon to disseminate information to all higher and further educational institutions, public and LEA post 16 provision.
Print
National Equality Policy Conference for Employment and SkillsHeld in June 2005, the aim of this conference was to convey the employment and skills agenda and discuss with employers, and the business community as a whole, to influence and shape future education and employment policy.
Print
New challenges to Academic Research: Interactive and User-Led ResearchThis article is an example of the transnational co-operation between researchers from Workforce Futures, United Kingdom and the PEOPLE project, Sweden. New challenges to Academic Research: Interactive and User-Led Research is a transnational partnership
Website
The Catalyst NewsletterThe Catalyst was produced by the Equal Project Management Team on a quarterly basis and was launched in March 2004.
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