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Employment Sustainability, seminar series July 2005

 
 

Employability Seminars 05 flyer image, Nuffield Foundation logo July 2005 To halve child poverty and have 70 per cent of lone parents in work by 2010, Government and employers need to look at ways in which lone parents can not only be helped into work but helped to stay there.

At the moment lone parents leave work at twice the rate of other groups.

 

Seminar 1: The Role of Government: 5 July 2005

Speakers:
  • Doctor Susan Harkness – University of Bristol, co-author of DWP research report on Lone Parents and Employment Retention;
  • Peter Kenway, Director, New Policy Institute; and
  • Karl Olsen, Researcher on the Employment Retention and Advancement Project, Department of Work and Pensions.


 

Seminar 2: The Role of Employers: 15 July 2005

Chair: Janice Munday, Director of Employment Relations, DTI

Speakers:
  • Liz Sewell, One Parent Families
  • John Mellan, Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  • Bernard Hughes ASDA


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