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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: The New Member States and Local Employment Development

This two year project on behalf of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities was delivered by WYG International in partnership with ECOTEC and a network of national experts.

Our aim was to identify future priorities in Local Employment Development (LED) in the New Member States of the EU, in keeping with the goals of the European Employment Strategy and wider EU objectives, and thereby develop future LED strategy in these countries and in the EU as a whole. The project covered 12 countries - the ten countries that joined the EU in 2004 and the two Candidate Countries of Romania and Bulgaria.

 

The project has produced extensive data on the current situation of LED in each of the 12 countries; informed the thinking of the European Commission in determining future strategy and policy priorities for the enlarged Union; and has informed and inspired national policymakers and local stakeholders in how promote effective local approaches to employment development in their countries.

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