Why attend

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING


Featuring specialist expertise, on the ground experience, cases of best practice and a focus on networking

At Welfare to Work 2010, delegates will:

  • Network with the high-level skills experts and policy-makers in the public, private and third sectors
  • Analyse the Welfare to Work agenda one year on and examine the statistics
  • Gain valuable insight into the role of local government
  • Engage with third sector and trade unions, conveying to them your needs directly
  • Receive clear guidance on how to help the long-term unemployed into sustained employment
  • Examine the benefits of investing in skills and training so that the economy is better prepared for recovery
  • Explore innovative ways of increasing youth employment
  • Find out about the feedback government programmes tackling unemployment have received
  • Discover the services, solutions and opportunities which can be exploited at the networking exhibition
  • Discuss how together we can facilitate the delivery of a joined-up, modern and personalised welfare system
  • Understand the latest strategies to increase the employment of people with learning disabilities or mental health issues

GREAT NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES

High-level speakers available to you; panel discussions; question and answer sessions; extended lunch and coffee breaks. The conference promises a unique mix of high quality seminars as well as an energised plenary. Over two hours of networking are scheduled into the programme to encourage attendees to network in a convivial environment.

DYNAMIC BREAKOUT SESSIONS

A series of six, one-hour seminars will allow delegates to understand complex areas of specific interest

CROSS-GOVERNMENT AND CROSS SECTOR INSIGHTS

This conference is attended by senior level human resources and employment directors, policy officers, and chief executives from numerous local authorities and government departments and agencies – from Berwick to Brighton, and everyone in between!

CPD CERTIFIED

This means that attendance at any of our events can contribute to your Continuing Personal and Professional Development and help you meet your own targets. All attendees will be provided with access to download the event CPD certificate post-conference

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?




Key job titles include:

 

  • Chief Executives
  • Managing Directors
  • Heads of Purchasing
  • Heads of Employer Engagement
  • Welfare Reform Directors
  • Heads of Human Resources
  • Performance Analyst
  • Heads of Vocational Skills
  • Business Development Managers
  • Employment and Training Directors
  • Corporate Policy Directors
  • Heads of Skills Development
  • Heads of Work Skills Programmes
  • Heads of Finance
  • Back to Work Programme Leads
  • Leadership Development Directors
  • Heads of Training and Professional Development
  • Employment and Skills Directors
  • Procurement Directors
  • Apprenticeship Directors
  • Local Employment Partnerships Directors
  • Employment Development
  • Welfare to Work Policy Leads
  • Organisational Development Directors
  • Benefits Directors
  • Heads of Recruitment
  • Social inclusion Officers
  • Employment Solutions
  • Heads of Equality and diversity
  • Occupational Health Directors
  • Personnel Adviser
  • Heads of Access to Employment
  • Heads of Economic Development
  • Strategic Development Directors
  • Heads of Funding
  • Adult Guidance Services Directors
  • Heads of Community Regeneration
  • Workforce Development Managers
  • Heads of Operations

From the following organisations:


  • Jobcentre Plus
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Central Government Departments
  • Local Authorities
  • Business Enterprise
  • Department for Business, Innovations and Skills
  • Learning and Skills Councils
  • Association of Learning Providers
  • Criminal Justice – Police, probation, prison services
  • Government Skills
  • Employers
  • Career Development Groups
  • Recruitment and Employment
  • Regional Development Agencies
  • Sector Skills Bodies
  • Training & Skills Providers
  • Charities
  • NHS
  • Apprenticeship providers
  • Housing Associations
  • UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES)
  • Trade Unions
  • Welfare Groups
  • Schools, Colleges and Universities
  • Universities
  • Youth Offending Teams
  • CBI Scotland
  • FSB Scotland
  • Scottish Enterprise
  • Welsh Assembly Government
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