Examples of Best Practice
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Project Information
The Better west midlands project is backed by the West Midlands Leaders Board and the Skills Funding Agency's regional European Social Fund programme, the project has provided support to over 10,000 workers from over 600 companies in the last three years.
Key Facts
The project 2009 - 2011 will...
- Support 13,290 people across the West Midlands
- Deliver short employment focused training courses and individual one-to-one support through a network of training providers.
- Focus on getting people back into work.
Jan Olsson European Economic and Social Committee
Michael Cashman M.E.P for the West Midlands
Find out more about the Beneficiaries by watching these videos.
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Julie Robson
Regional Director of Skills
Julie Robson, Deputy Regional Director of the Skills Funding Agency, said:
"The current economic slowdown poses major challenges to individuals and employers and our job is to be flexible and responsive in supporting people to meet those challenges.”
"In the West Midlands, we have considerable experience of working with partners to develop integrated solutions so that an individual's skills, training and employment needs can be addressed in a joined up way. “
“The Better West Midlands project is an excellent example of this approach, and clearly demonstrates responsive and co-ordinated support to individuals and employers prior to redundancies being made.”
"All the lessons we've learned in responding to major redundancies in recent years are informing the work we're doing now to help reduce the uncertainty so many people are facing."
