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Employment & Labour

The aim of fuller employment, improved skills and better jobs, especially for socially and economically excluded people, underpins all ECOTEC's research and consultancy work. Through work for major government departments, ECOTEC has helped shape the solution to key policy challenges in this area.  

For example, we have recently reported to DWP on methods to improve  access to Jobcentre Plus services for people with communication barriers – including people with disabilities and people with English as a second language –groups for whom access to work is key. 

ECOTEC has also been supporting DWP in the development of the City Strategy Business Plans, a central element of employment strategy in the pathfinder areas, being rolled out nationally in the near future.  

ECOTEC can help you:

  • Plan your employment initiatives – especially where this involves improving pathways to employment for economically and socially excluded groups;
  • Advise you on best practice with our knowledge of 'what works' from Europe and other parts of the UK;
  • Help you plan practical programmes and projects in place to meet national and regional policy;
  • Carry out research with vulnerable workers and employers in a sensitive but systematic manner;
  • Evaluate your initiatives.

Service Portfolio: London Employer Accord

ECOTEC are responsible for designing and developing the London Employer Accord for the London Development Agency.  Our work is part of the London Employment and Skills Taskforce for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

 

The Employer Accord aims to help employers and public sector employment and training agencies to work together to increase the number of job vacancies advertised and filled by publicly-funded employment and training agencies.

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