Making Welfare Reform Work: Partnerships and Employability Solutions

Along with Rethink and The Age and Employment Network, Scope is supporting a one-day conference, sponsored by Carter & Carter Group plc, entitled Making Welfare Reform Work: Partnerships and Employability Solutions on Wednesday 14 March 2007 at the Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, London.

The conference offers practical insight into flagship programmes, including Pathways to Work and the Cities Strategy, designed to help more people find and hold down appropriate work. Through case studies the event will explore the inter-agency partnerships that will enable these initiatives to succeed.

This changing agenda presents challenges as well as opportunities for the public, private and voluntary sectors across a range of different disciplines. Often it will require them to pool expertise and work more closely together, creating new methods to support welfare reform’s key user groups: people with mental health problems, disabled people and over-50s not in work.

Among the high-profile speakers will be Andy Rickell, Executive Director, Diversity and Corporate Planning for Scope who will talk on “Barriers and opportunities: how to tailor welfare reform for disabled people”.