This
project is financed by the LSC, SEEDA and
the European Social Fund
Welcome to the March 2008 edition of the Labour Market Focus e-bulletin and website. This will be the last until a decision is made on funding (please see below). As always, this e-bulletin and our website has lots of useful information and links to help you to inform your clients of opportunities out there.
You can contact also contact us on 01845 526699 or
by emailing se.lmf@vtplc.com.
What's New?
The latest issue is packed with new information and features, including:
Our Industry Focus on Adult, Social Care. This article includes: an industry overview; details of working in Social Care and skills needs and future trends that the sector faces. There are also web links to major employers and other useful links.
Click
here to find out more.
Spotlight On… looks at Age, Care and the Flexible Labour Market.
Click
here to view it now.
The latest national and regional news under the headings: General and Policy, Education and Training, Labour Market and Economy and Recent Publications and Statistics.
Click
here to find out more.
New regional and local data on Vacancies. Click
here to see the
regional data.
Updated information on events/training highlights, and tools and resources on the Training and Tools page.Click
here to see them.
Your
Learning Opportunities and Support pages are
always updated. Click through on the side navigation
and new items will be highlighted at the top
of the page.
You can still view the Labour Market Focus website using the button on the top banner. There are also links to the website from the bulletin articles, especially in the National and Regional News and Trends, Spotlight On and Industry Focus sections, which provide in-depth commentary, news and features.
Labour Market Focus Evaluation – Summary of Results
Labour Market Focus is a 2 year pilot project due to end on 31 March 2008 funded by SEEDA, LSC and JCP. Some of you took part in the e-survey of users last November which will be used to help funders decide on whether the product should continue after the end of the pilot period. In the last edition of LMF we said that we would feed back to you on the results.
The e-survey link was sent to around 4,000 people - 211 of you responded. Over half of the responses came from recipients working in JCP, 17% from Connexions Partnerships with the remainder working for the LSC, schools and colleges. Around 60% of respondents gave good or very good markings on the quality of the news, other information and links provided. 2% of respondents gave poor markings. There was general approval of the content and design of both the website and bulletin and there were a number of general comments supporting LMF and its continuation. The majority of people felt that it helped them in delivery of their roles but acknowledged that there were other sources of information that they used too. The most popular pages are local news and local data.
Next Steps
This will be the last edition of LMF in its current format as funding for the pilot project has now ended. Funding partners are now considering the results of the pilot in the context of their funding decisions for 2008/09 and will shortly be in a position to decide whether the service should continue beyond the pilot period. We will publish details of the decision, which will be made by the 11th April, on the LMF website shortly thereafter.
The
bulletin is funded by the European Social Fund
(ESF), South East England Development Agency (SEEDA)
and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).
Partners
in the project also include Connexions, Jobcentre
Plus, Nextstep, Sector Skills Councils, Government
Office for the South East (GOSE).
