Indus Delta Welfare to Work Newswire - 11 November 2011

Parkhouse Bell: building recruitment relationships

Parkhouse Bell is a recruitment consultancy that provides a confidential and specialist service across all levels within the welfare to work industry.  For more information visit our website or our dedicated jobs page on Indus Delta.

Apprenticeships in London: rapid improvement but more employers needed

A new report from the London Employment and Skills Observatory, Apprenticeships in London: where do we go from here?, acknowledges the strides made by businesses in London in meeting the Mayor’s Apprenticeship challenge, and remains optimistic that London will reach the revised target of 100,000 Apprenticeship starts by 2012. However, efforts to raise numbers of Apprenticeships could be seriously hampered by weaker than expected growth figures and future uncertainty from employers.  Read more here.

Are you seeing large numbers of 50+ customers coming on to the Work Programme?

TAEN sets out its training offer.  Read more here.

The Work Programme: not working for young people

A million young people are jobless, but the government's Big Society flagship employment scheme appears to be ignoring both them and the youth charities that help them find work, says Patrick Butler in the Guardian this week.  Read more here.

Arts employment charity shows the creative sector can help solve the youth unemployment crisis

New Deal of the Mind has published an independent evaluation of its Future Jobs Fund programme.  Read more here.

AELP publish paper on Apprenticeships

The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has been developing a descriptive paper about Apprenticeships, viewed from the sharp end of AELP providers, who deliver over 70% of all Apprenticeships.  Read more here.

People power removed from Localism Bill

The House of Lords has removed the flagship 'local referendum' provision, which provided the community empowerment element from the Localism Bill.  Read more here.

Calls for a rescue package for indebted households made at Debt Advice Centre Conference

Damon Gibbons, Director for the Centre for Responsible Credit, an affiliate of Inclusion, used his keynote speech to the recent Bristol Debt Advice Centre 21st Anniversary conference to call for a ‘rescue package for indebted households’, comprising partial debt write-off and improvements to the insolvency and debt management system.   Read more here.