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February 28, 2012
A number of employment and skills providers have been included on the Sunday Times Top 100 List of Best Small Companies to Work For in the UK 2012, published last weekend. The list recognises companies employing between 50 and 249 employees who have excelled in every area throughout the workplace and have demonstrated a clear [...]
February 21, 2012
DWP has published its first series of statistics relating to the numbers of referrals and attachments (confirmed customer starts on programme) for its Work Programme. The figures show that the total number of referrals from June to October 2011 was just under 370,000, with just over 332,000 attachments in the same period, higher than DWP’s [...]
February 17, 2012
Hull College Group (HCUK) are inviting initial expressions of interest from organisations willing and able to commence immediate delivery of Apprenticeships for the 16 -24 age group across all regions of England. HCUK recognise that there is no easy way to achieve the ambitious targets set by the Government and are looking to enhance their [...]
February 3, 2012
Employment Minister Chris Grayling has announced that official statistics for the Work Programme, including referral data, will be published for the first time on 21st February with subsequent publications published quarterly. Up until now official Work Programme performance data has not been published, despite calls from opposition MPs. In response to a report last month by the [...]
February 1, 2012
Two of the UK’s leading employment support charities, Shaw Trust and Careers Development Group (CDG) have today announced the commission of an independent feasibility review to explore working more closely together, which could lead to a merger of the two organisations. The aim of the review is to explore if and how the two [...]
January 31, 2012
Blue Orchid | Operations Director | Location: North West | Closing Date 16th February 2012 Disability Works UK | Executive Director | Location: London | Closing Date 17th February 2012 Skills Training UK | Progress Coach | Location: South East | Closing Date 22nd February 2012 Other Vacancies closing in late February include: Senior Skills for Life [...]
January 24, 2012
Ixion is pleased to announce that on behalf of NHS North West, that it has been appointed to deliver the contract to improve the range of services offered to the Armed Forces Community (veterans and service families) in the North West. “As an ex-serviceman myself, I am conscious that the range of public and charitable [...]
DWP has introduced the Work Programme quickly, in just over a year, and this has had benefits, but the speed with which it was launched has also increased risks, according to a report published today by the National Audit Office (NAO). The NAO claims that DWP and providers have made assumptions about how many people [...]
January 20, 2012
DWP has announced the preferred bidders for Round One of its Innovation Fund competition: APM UK Ltd: West Midlands (every Birmingham Ward) Stratford Development Partnership: Stratford, Canning Town, Royal Docks (Newham), Cathall (Waltham Forest) Indigo Project Solutions: Perthshire and Kinross Nottingham City Council: Nottingham City Private Equity Foundation: Shoreditch London Triodos Bank: Greater Merseyside Round [...]
January 18, 2012
NCG is one of the largest educational, training and employability organisations in the UK, currently delivering to 70,000 individuals and 7,000 businesses from over 45 locations. NCG comprises three divisions – Newcastle College, West Lancashire College and the Intraining Group. Rathbone, a UK-wide voluntary youth sector charity providing opportunities for young people to transform their lives, [...]