Working with Employers

Quality Development Fund Project

September 2002 – March 2003

This is the Executive Summary of the Project on 'Enhancing Work with Employers' carried out in Gloucestershire. Essentially the project focused on Identifying 8 Employers and working with them to install and IAG Resource Base and Training a 'Learning Guradian' The project developed further to include taster guidance sessions to show to Employers the wide ranging benefits of IAG to their business.

QDF Project - Enhancing Work with Employers - Undertaken on behalf of the Gloucestershire IAG Partnership by Jan Jones and Mary Opie

Key issues and recommendations

The project highlighted some important issues which have implications not only for the local GO IAG partnership, but for other national IAG partnerships as well. They can be summarised around the three topics of IAG Partnership staff, marketing of IAG services and IAG network management and development.

Conclusion

There is clear evidence that a significant proportion of employers are willing to engage with IAG partnerships, provided they can see a tangible benefit to their business. Strategies should be concentrated on those which have been proved to be effective, such as those outlined above.

Project summary

Project delivery

Impact of the project

Other activities to engage employers

IAG staff

Marketing of IAG services

IAG network development