Great Day in Liverpool with Dutch colleagues and transformliveco and Liverpool City Region

Stats folk, help! Is it possible to estimate how many people IN work are eligible for but NOT claiming Universal Credit? entitledto Nye Cominetti Lalitha Try Tony Wilson Ashwin Kumar + anyone got a helpful little summary of recent benefit non-take up estimates to hand? 🙏

Thanks SEGRO plc, we look forward to evolving this partnership and getting our customers into sustainable work and as a result supporting the Slough community.

#SLOUGH #restartscheme #fedcapgroup #fedcapemployment

Earlier this week ERSA and NPC (New Philanthropy Capital) held a joint fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference. ERSA #employmentsupport
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The Employment Sector has the answers

ERSA Labour Market and Policy Researcher, Henry Foulkes reflects on recent events

#WeAreEmploymentSupport #ERSAConf22 #cpc22 #labourconference22 #ERSAAwards22

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It's Customer Service Week. Great to see Susan, our Operations Director, on the phones in our Customer Success Centre today in Middlesbrough.

#NCSW2022 #strategy #leadership

Today at 2.30pm Tracy Fishwick will be live on BBC Radio Merseyside talking to Helen Jones about the cost of living crisis, and how TLC and The Life Rooms are partnering up to deliver support across the city.
#ConnectingCommunities

Tune in!📻

#Dyslexia is associated with both challenges AND strengths

It's rarely helpful to look at something as all good or all bad. When we accommodate needs & remove barriers we can get on with celebrating the benefits of having a brain that works differently!

#Dyslexia AwarenessWeek

We need to work with people in work as well as those out of work. That requires different kinds of support - not just jobcentres but charities etc who are trusted and provide flexible, personalised support. Elizabeth Taylor at NPC ERSA event

Richard from Shaw Trust - we also need to work with employers to increase good work: decent pay, treated well. We need universal support. But withdrawal of European funding hitting services & UK Shared Prosperity Fund not replacing it. NPC ERSA event

What is needed to meet short term crisis & keep people alive this winter? Richard from Shaw Trust : Getting people into good work is crucial, but real terms cuts to benefits would be the worst thing & make that much harder. NPC ERSA event

Back again here with ERSA, discussing civil society and employment, this time at #CPC22 . Leah Davis sets the scene: 'We need growth yes, but growth for who?' Charities can ensure that the people most at risk in the current crisis benefit

Richard from Shaw Trust says seeing 100% increase in mental health work, people really struggling. Many aren’t going to jobcentres, only charities like Shaw Trust are working with them. Disability employment gap now widening, reversing previous trend. NPC ERSA event

‘You can’t bake a bigger pie with less flour’. The workforce is smaller than pre pandemic. People out of labour market won’t be drawn back in by threats & benefit cuts. We need to make positive case for work & support people properly - Deven Ghelani NPC ERSA event