The inaugural Integrating Employment and Skills Conference 2010 on March 4 at the QEII Conference Centre, London
Key themes include:
- Creating Sustained Employment by Matching Skills to Employment Opportunities
- Providing Skills to Reduce Number of Young People Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET)
- Skills on the Job: The National Apprenticeships Service
- What are we doing to meet the target of 325,000 skilled workers in STEM industries by 2014?
- The Value of Education and Skills to Business
- Making sure that 95% of people of working age possess functional literacy and numeracy by 2020
- Raising Prosperity and Opportunity through World Class Employment and Skills
Speakers include:
Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Invited)
Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP, Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Invited)
David Willets MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation and Skills (Confirmed)
Simon Waugh, Chief Executive, National Apprenticeships Service (Confirmed)
Susan Anderson, Director of Public Services and Skills, Confederation of British Industry (Confirmed)
Lord Archy Kirkwood, Former Chair, Work and Pensions Select Committee (Confirmed)
Chris Humphries CBE, Chief Executive, UK Commission for Employment and Skills (Confirmed)
Olly Newton, NEET Policy Manager, Participation and Progression, Department for Children, Schools and Families (Confirmed)
Ali Hadawi, Principal, Southend Adult Community College (Confirmed)
Cllr Ron Round, Leader Knowsley MBC & Chair, Liverpool City Region Cabinet (Invited)
For more information or to make a booking please visit www.govnet.co.uk/IES