Indus Delta Welfare to Work Newswire - 4 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.

Inclusion and Chris Melvin launch new venture, PublicCo

The Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion and Chris Melvin are delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new joint venture – PublicCo. PublicCo has been formed to improve the delivery, development and commissioning of public services, including those that are contracted out to the private and voluntary sector.  Read more here.

Women in Welfare Sleepout - update 4 November

Only 6 days to go! We have smashed our target with £2260 banked but please keep the pledges coming.  Every penny helps a young person get off the streets. Thank you so much to those who have supported us so generously. We really appreciate it.  Read more here. 

You can make a difference this Christmas

Do you live in London? Buy your Christmas tree from Tomorrow’s People Trust. Tomorrow’s People is a specialist charitable trust that helps people out of long-term unemployment, welfare dependence or homelessness, into jobs and self-sufficiency.  Read more here.

 'Problems recruiting? We'll do it for you' says minister

According to a recent article by Management Today, Chris Grayling has suggested that the government's Work Programme can meet the recruitment needs of small businesses.  Read more here.

Media coverage of BBC Panorama programme gets sums wrong

The BBC will tonight air an edition of Panorama looking at benefit fraud entitled Britain on the Fiddle. Media coverage of the programme this week has fallen into the sticky trap of exaggerating the level of benefit fraud by conflating it with the sums lost to error.  Read more here.

Seeing is believing: Notes from a UK study visit on child poverty  

Washington-based bipartisan advocacy organisation dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy and budget decisions, First Focus, share their experiences of a recent UK child poverty study trip.  The trip was organised in partnership with the Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion.  Read more here.

Groundbreaking merger will create more life changing opportunities for thousands of the country’s most “hard to reach” young people

Rathbone, a UK-wide voluntary youth sector organisation providing opportunities for young people to transform their lives, has committed to merging with NCG, one of the country’s leading providers of education, training and employability.  Read more here.

Going for growth

This week's announcement of Regional Growth Fund awards, and an all out mission to boost growth, is welcome.  But what will be the impact on net employment and how will it benefit those out of work, including the unemployed?  Read more here.

Iain Duncan Smith gives Universal Credit update

Over one million people will be claiming Universal Credit by April 2014 Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith announced this week as he set out the government timetable to move 12 million claimants onto the new benefit by 2017.  Read more here.

Indus Delta job listings of the week: SOVA

SOVA is seeking to recruit energetic, target driven, enthusiastic people who can inspire and motivate people to get back into the workplace, as part of the Government’s Work Programme.  You need to have a good knowledge of employment and training opportunities in the region and have experience or working directly with the unemployed. If you have a proven track record of helping people get a job and get on in life then we want to hear from you.

Employment Adviser x 2

Locations: Stoke and Staffordshire, Coventry and Warwickshire

Salary range: £21,421

Hours: 35 hours per week 

The Employment Adviser will provide effective day to day delivery of the project, working with customers on a one to one and group basis to assess their needs and support them to gain secure sustained employment.

Read more here.

Project Manager

Locations: Stoke and Staffordshire, Coventry and Warwickshire

Salary range: £24,124

Hours: 35 hours per week

The Project Manager will have day to day responsibility for the management of the programme; this includes achievement and monitoring of employment and sustained employment outcomes against contractual targets and the line management for identified staff members.

Read more here.