Upskilling older workers
Initiatives to analyse changing skills needs and to motivate and enable older people in work to acquire the new skills they need to update their qualifications and skills, retain their jobs, prolong their working lives or maintain their organisation’s competitive advantage.

A New Tool for Your Business >>Skills analysis has established a new business to continue the work of the partnership.

Accredited Life Skills Modules in Higher Education >> University of Hull (Scarborough) Modules within a recognised qualification, targeted at unemployed people.

Age Awareness Drama Group >>Students aged 19-25 at the University of Hull present age-related stereotypes as a series of sketches.

Age Concern Newsletter - Reportage >>The publication is designed to provide a voice for older people in matters of politics, policy and issues which affect their social mobility.

Age Discrimination Training >> In conjunction with Age Concern Training, Skills Analysis has been conducting a series of Awareness seminars throughout the South West - these have been focusing on understanding the changing UK demographics and demonstrating the business case for recruiting and retaining older workers.

Age Driver >> Age Driver is a self assessment tool which has been helping companies to put the spotlight on age diversity in the workplace.

Age/Employment Guidance Framework >> This framework aims to provide immediate assistance to the older worker who is looking for a job or looking to change jobs.

Ageless at Work - Equal Transnational Partnership Report 2007 >> This report is the Ageless at Work Executive Summary of Transnational Work Packages 1, 2, 3 & 4.

Ageless at Work - Mentoring Guidance Pack >>The Ageless at Work Mentoring Guidance Pack is process-oriented and offers research findings on mentoring practices, giving delivery partners essential knowledge to help them develop innovative mentoring elements within their local projects and supporting their task to ensure mentoring is strategically and operationally successful.

Career Finder >>This on-line product is part of the resource available to individuals to help match skills to jobs.and make decisions about future direction.

Community of Interest Platform (COIP) >> COIP is an intranet resource which has been developed to enable all partners, including transnational partners to share systems, ideas, engage in discussion groups, keep each other informed of progress, post key documents etc.

Demographic Aging Conference Papers >> SWOOP attended a conference in March 2006 on Demographic Ageing.

Employer Feedback Report >> This report summarises the findings from research carried out in the Medway and Thames Gateway into SME’s attitudes towards older workers (for the purposes of this research people over the age of 45) in the workplace.

Engaging Employers >>A short video which takes a look, in pictures, at the work of Medway Council and the Age Alliance project.

E-portfolio >> On-line resource designed to: help older people to review and assess the learning, skills and aptitudes developed through their lives assist individuals in representing themselves and their abilities to employers through helping individuals assess themselves, aid confidence building and renew self esteem include links to on-line skills assessment exercises provide links to relevant training provision .

Equal Forum - Schwerin Castle, 26th September 2007 >>"Experiences and Results of the European Network" was an Equal Forum held at Schwerin Castle on the 26th September 2007.

Final Conference Report >>The Final conference was held to finalise nearly two years work of the Age Alliance partnership.

Good Practice Guides >> This compendium contains four best practice guides, based on the work of four thematic groups: age management, career management, assessment and training.

Grey Matters - Project Findings >>The findings from the Grey Matters project, which was designed to examine the use of flexible working practices in managing the retention of older workers, and to understand how the recruitment process can support the employment of older worker.
