50+ Good Practice Guide: Users’ Help Requested

TAEN - The Age and Employment Network has been commissioned by the DWP to produce and disseminate a new 50+ Good Practice Guide*.  TAEN would now like potential users to help review the prototype.

The Guide is primarily designed to help front line staff in prime contractor organisations, and their sub-contractors, who are may find themselves advising and helping older jobseekers to return to work.

Chris Ball, the Chief Executive of TAEN**, explains:

“We have been keen from the start of the project in March to involve the users of the Guide in its development.   We believe they should have a leading voice and a significant role in helping us provide a tool which is useful to them.  And that’s exactly what has happened. 

“As a result of our research and the feedback we’ve had from organisations and their advisers and trainers, we concluded that the Guide should be a web-based tool so that it can be easily accessed and will be easy to update and maintain going forward.

“We are now at the stage where we would like potential users to review the prototype and give us feedback on the content included so far.  

“The Guide has to be launched on 1 July, so the timetable is tight.  We would like to hear from anyone in provider organisations who could spare an hour or two to review the prototype remotely.

“Please call us on 020 7843 1590 or e-mail us on info [at] taen [dot] org [dot] uk if you would like to participate.” 

* The Good Practice Guide is one of the new 50+ employment support measures announced by the DWP in last December’s ‘Building Britain’s Recovery – Achieving full employment’ White Paper.  The measures have been introduced from this April onwards.

** TAEN – The Age and Employment Network is an independent charity whose mission is to promote an effective job market which works for people in mid and later life, for employers and for the economy.  Founded in 1998, TAEN is housed and partly funded by Age UK.

www.taen.org.uk