Dering Employment Services has reported that it has called in the administrators. The Croydon based company, founded by Stephen Dering in 2006, specialised in delivering employability programmes for deaf, hard of hearing and deaf/blind people and positioned itself as the only deaf-owned and deaf-run company supporting people to get jobs. The company’s reputation had grown [...]
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Flexible New DealDering Calls in the AdministratorsTuesday, August 3rd, 2010The Outlook for Local AuthoritiesFriday, July 9th, 2010The new Government’s welfare reform agenda is presenting a fundamental challenge to the participation of local authorities as providers of welfare to work programmes. Many local authority employment functions have relied on the Working Neighbourhoods Fund, Future Jobs Fund, the Local Enterprise Growth Initiative, and similar schemes, many of which have now fallen foul of [...] Paragon acquires Platinum Training & DevelopmentWednesday, July 7th, 2010Paragon Skills for Industry, a leading provider of vocational training and welfare-to-work services in the South of England has completed the acquisition of specialist childcare training provider Platinum Training & Development (”Platinum”) to further expand Paragon’s activities into the Midlands. The combined business has more than 300 staff in 14 centres supporting more than 5,000 [...] FourstaR and SCVO scoop DWP Excellence AwardsWednesday, June 9th, 2010FourstaR Employment & Skills and the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) were amongst the winners at the inaugural DWP Supplier Excellence Awards presented by Leigh Lewis, Permanent Secretary to DWP, in London today. Ixion Builds on Computer Gym AcquisitionTuesday, June 8th, 2010Ixion Holdings are the latest in a long series of companies to make an acquisition in the employment and skills sector, having purchased Computer Gym (UK) Ltd back at the end of April. Ixion Holdings, based in Essex, already delivers Business Link provision in the East of England, and is part of The London Brokerage [...] Grayling and Freud Set Out Work Programme AgendaWednesday, June 2nd, 2010Chris Graying and Lord Freud addressed an audience of providers for the first time today in their new capacities as Ministers of State at the Department for Work & Pensions. The event in London, hosted by Alan Cave of DWP’s Delivery Directorate, provided the first insight as to how the new Government’s welfare reform agenda [...] Will Work Programme learn from Pathways Report?Friday, May 28th, 2010A National Audit Office report published today has given a fairly damming verdict on DWP’s Pathways to Work programme. Pathways to Work was launched in December 2007 as a major initiative to support long term claimants of incapacity related benefits back into work. The programme is directly delivered in around 60% of the country by private [...] Duncan Smith’s First Speech on Welfare ReformThursday, May 27th, 2010Following on from the announcement of the new Welfare Reform Bill in the Queen’s Speech earlier this week, Iain Duncan Smith has made his first keynote speech as Secretary of State for Work & Pensions. The speech coincided with the publication of the Government’s State of the Nation Report on Poverty, Worklessness and Welfare Dependency. Welfare to Work - What Happens Next?Thursday, May 20th, 2010With the hullabaloo of the General Election now behind them, the new Government is now getting down to business. The confirmation of a Ministerial remit on Welfare Reform for Lord Freud has not been a great surprise, but how the political chemistry at DWP evolves between Freud, Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling is perhaps [...] All Existing Welfare to Work Programmes to End?Wednesday, May 12th, 2010The coalition agreement published between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats starts to set out policy intent on employment and skills. Notably it states that both parties “agree to end all existing welfare to work programmes and to create a single welfare to work programme to help all unemployed people get back into work”. |
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