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| Business Brokers | ||||||||
| Evaluation of
national pilot programme for Business in the Community (Partnership
Academy) and the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit. Brokers are employed in
10 areas to facilitate business involvement in Local Strategic Partnerships
and in neighbourhood Renewal. |
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| City Growth Strategies | ||||||||
| Advisory role as
member of national Resource Team for City Growth Strategies (Small Business
Service) (2002-04) |
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| Enterprise and Social Inclusion | ||||||||
| Facilitation and
preparation of a strategy on enterprise and social inclusion for
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (for Business Link Wessex) |
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| Barnsley Development Agency: Change Management | ||||||||
| Support for change
management in creating the Barnsley Development Agency (strategic
partnership and co-location of local authority Economic Development Unit,
Business Link and Chamber of Commerce) (report to Barnsley Territorial
Employment Pact) |
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| Birmingham and Solihull Connexions: Change Management | ||||||||
| Support for change
management in establishing the merged Birmingham and Solihull Connexions
company (with GFA Consulting) |
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| Partnership Structure: Surrey Bridges (Education Business Links) | ||||||||
| Review of
partnership needs and organisational options for new education/ business
links organisation, prior to their contracting with Surrey Local Learning and
Skills Council. |
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| Evaluation of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal: Scoping Study | ||||||||
| Project to clarify
the scope and methodological options to evaluate progress, lessons and
impact of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal (for Neighbourhood
Renewal Unit, ODPM) (project led by Department of Land Economy, University of
Cambridge) |
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| Development of Learning Partnerships | ||||||||
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Preparation of draft
learning plan for Somerset Learning Partnership |
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| Partnerships in the Learning and Skills Sector | ||||||||
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Partnerships: benefits, limitations and doing it better -
Paper commissioned by the Learning and
Skills Development Agency (LSDA) for a national policy seminar on 6 November
2003. EDuce and Makesfive now offer a partnership development service in conjunction with LSDA Solutions. |
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| Sectors and Supply Chain Development | ||||||||
| Development workshop
for SE Regional Supply Office and SEEDA Sector Co-ordinators (with Makesfive
ltd; for SEEDA Business Development Team) |
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| Tottenham Partnership: Board Awaydays | ||||||||
| Facilitated
workshops to enable the board members of a regeneration partnership review
future direction and action needed to improve partnership effectiveness |
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| Voluntary Sector Skills Strategy | ||||||||
| Advice and facilitation
of regional consultations on the Voluntary Sector Skills Strategy, linked to
the Home Office review of Voluntary Sector Infrastructure and Capacity
Building (for Voluntary Sector Skills/ NCVO) Top |
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SKILLS AND CAPACITY BUILDING |
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| Skills and Knowledge for Neighbourhood Renewal: evaluation of NRU Skills and Knowledge Programme | ||||||||
| Evaluation of the
Skills and Knowledge Programme, established to support learning and
improvement in the implementation of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood
Renewal. Covers, eg, the strategic roles of the NRU and Government Offices,
Renewal.net website, Neighbourhood Renewal Advisers and regional regeneration
networks. Project being carried out by EDuce with University of Cambridge
(Department of Land Economy), Makesfive Ltd, GFA Consulting and Sharp End
Infoseek. |
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| Smarter Partnerships | ||||||||
Website
- www.lgpartnerships.com - to help users
improve partnership skills and performance. It contains We have also made presentations and run workshops linked to Smarter Partnerships, eg, for Bedfordshire Strategic Service Delivery Partnership, Essex County Council General Scrutiny Committee and the Home Office Immigration and Nationality Department..
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| Local Strategic Partnerships: Skills and Performance Improvement | ||||||||
| Series of projects
relating to improving partnership performance, including workshops on LSPs and
performance management (eg, for GO East and South Bedfordshire LSP) and input
to Makesfive project for IDeA on LSPs and Performance Management. Review of the learning and development needs of LSP board members in the West Midlands (for GOWM, with GFA Consulting) |
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| Local Area Agreement Induction Pack | ||||||||
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Aimed at
for Government Office West Midlands staff (with GFA Consulting),
pulling together national guidance and describing roles, drivers and
constraints of key partners in LSPs and LAAs. |
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| 'Changing Practices: Guide for Employers in Regeneration Areas' | ||||||||
| Case study-based
guide reviewing how employers are adapting their mainstream business practices
to bring direct benefits to their companies and to disadvantaged
communities where they are based. (Project with Cambridge Economic Associates
for the British Retail Consortium and the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit.) |
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| Skills for Regeneration: Community Champions | ||||||||
| Research project for
DfES investigating the skills and knowledge needed and gained by local people
in promoting small-scale regeneration, and what they learn through taking part
in the Community
Champions programme. (With The Sharp End Group) |
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| Partnership Skills Training for Local Learning and Skills Councils | ||||||||
| Partnership skills
training for Local Learning and Skills Councils (Kent & Medway;
Gloucestershire), involving needs research, programme design and delivery,
follow-up evaluation. (With Makesfive ltd) |
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| Developing Robust Relationships between RDAs and Sub-Regional partnerships | ||||||||
| Review of
relationships between SEEDA (South East Economic Development Agency) and the
11 South East Economic Partnerships) to identify improvements and set up
partnership agreements, in context of new core funding from SEEDA. We
subsequently facilitated a review to assess progress and mutual benefits. Download project case study here. (PDF - 171 KB) Review of partnership structures and relationships between Advantage West Midlands and sub-regional partnerships
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| Supporting Local Business: Good Practice Guide | ||||||||
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Good practice guide
drawing on the experience of six Beacon Councils under the 'Fostering Business
Growth' strand (for Local Government Association and IDeA). |
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| Regional Compact for Learning and Skills | ||||||||
| Research and
development project for SE LLSCs and RAISE (regional voluntary sector network)
investigating progress being made by LLSCs and voluntary/ community sector
against the key messages in the 'Mutual Advantage' report (see below) and
facilitating the setting up of a compact and action plan relating to strategic
engagement of the sector in the regional learning and skills agenda. Download
a copy of the Compact here. |
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| 'Mutual Advantage: Working with Voluntary and Community Organisations on Learning and Skills' | ||||||||
| Action research and
case studies voluntary and community sector involvement in learning and
skills, to
help strengthen the sector's role in partnership with Local Learning
and Skills Councils. A DfES Education and Training Development Agenda
project, with Hampshire TEC, Sandwell TEC and Wigan CCTE.
Download Mutual Advantage report here (PDF - 597 KB) Part 2 - Case Studies and Resources (PDF - 556 KB) Summary
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| "Five Vital Lessons: Successful Partnership with the Private Sector" | ||||||||
| Action-research to
develop management tools and case studies, putting into good practice models
developed through earlier projects also funded by DfES. Involved Coventry & Warwickshire
Chamber, Learning & Business Link Co Ltd and Somerset TEC. (Project in
partnership with GFA Consulting.) Go to the Five Vital Lessons website for the interactive toolkit.
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| Working with Local Strategic Partnerships | ||||||||
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| Business Partnering | ||||||||
| Key part of team
delivering an ESF project to maximise the benefits of collaboration for
SMEs: collaboration between businesses and with the public sector. (Project
partners: SEEDA, Learning and Business Link Co Ltd, Hampshire TEC, Surrey
TEC; collaborators: the Learning and Business Observatory, Makesfive
ltd) Involved facilitation of over 30 events, helping business groupings assess collaborative opportunities and improve partnership working. Organisations included: Bletchley Business Forum Hampshire Defence Network Hampshire Tourism Training Partnership IBP ltd Local Employment Access Project (Surrey) North Hampshire Chamber of Commerce Farnborough Aerospace Consortium Hampshire TEC Hampshire County Council Hampshire Farmers Markets Solent Innovation Enterprise Hub |
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| Partnership Capacity Building for Trades Unionists | ||||||||
| Training programme
for trades unionists involved in economic development, regeneration and
learning partnerships. Run in four TUC regions. Covers partnership working,
policy developments and good practice in strategies, project development and
evaluation. You can download an article
from 'Local Work' about the pilot. Series of regional workshops for TUC/ DfES to brief trades unionists on the Learning and Skills Council and prepare to apply for board membership. Research and facilitation support for North West TUC, mobilising trades union inputs to the North West FRESA (Framework for Regional Skills and Employment Action) and review of the Regional Economic Strategy.
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Capacity Building for Voluntary Organisations on Learning & Skills |
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| Series of capacity
building projects for Local Learning and Skills Councils (jointly with
Makesfive ltd)
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Kent Partners Skills Programme |
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Capacity building programme for partners in support of Kent Prospects (economic development) and Kent Learning strategies. Wide ranging project, tackling skills and partnership issues in inward investment, sector development, town centre management, regeneration project management and New Deal provider collaboration.
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Competencies for Partnership Working |
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| Review of
partnership requirements, skills and competencies for local authorities
working on cross-cutting issues (covering policy context; literature review;
identification of training provision and innovative approaches; review of
potential of national occupational standards) Training needs analysis for partners in Doncaster Regeneration Partnership. Interactive partnership diagnostic and learning needs analysis tool for local authorities and their partners (for Local Government National Training Organisation)
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| Colleges and Partnership Working | ||||||||
| Learning needs
analysis tool, "Competence and Competitiveness - Colleges and Local
Economic Development" for Further Education Development Agency (FEDA) -
now Learning and Skills Development Agency.
Highlights outward-looking partnership skill needs which complement the work
of the FE National Training Organisation on teaching skills. Chapter in FEDA book, "FE - Aspects of Economic Development" (1998) See Resources
for tool to download
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| Partnership Skills Training | ||||||||
| One and two day
training programmes in partnership working. Content covers, eg, partnership
success factors, partnership life cycle and managing change, influencing
outcomes, dealing with tensions and conflict
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| Standards for Economic Development | ||||||||
| Development of draft
national standards of professional competence for economic development
practitioners (funded by DfEE, as a follow-up to earlier work for the DTI on
Business Links). Series of projects to test the standards and develop new
applications. Top
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| Information on Regeneration for Community Organisations | ||||||||
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Evaluation of project providing information services to
community-based organisations, for the Planning Exchange project (funded by DTLR and Community Fund)
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| Redbridge Safer Communities Partnership | ||||||||
| Capacity building
programme for Redbridge Safer Communities Partnership, including action
planning and multi-agency project development workshops, and events for
Redbridge Council on mainstreaming community safety (their 'Section 17'
duty).
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| Service Improvement Diagnostics | ||||||||
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Self assessment tools on
Economic Development and Regeneration and on Neighbourhood
Renewal designed to help local authorities review the way in which they
develop, deliver and improve their economic development and regeneration
services and activities. Produced for
IDeA (the local government
Improvement and Development Agency) and based on the Local Government
Improvement Programme Model. Linked to a Peer Review service provided by IDeA.
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| Supply Chain Development | ||||||||
| Partnership
facilitation, bid preparation and evaluation of project for GE Capital,
Leeds to introduce world class practices (Six Sigma quality management;
facilitation and change management) into SMEs, funded by ESF.
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| Building Skills in Kent Charities | ||||||||
| Evaluation of
management development programme for the voluntary sector in Kent, led by
Charities Aid Foundation and funded by the ESF.
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| Setting Up an Anti-Social Behaviour Team | ||||||||
| Research into
functions for a new Anti-Social Behaviour Co-ordinator and 'problem solving'
team in the Public Protection Service, LB Redbridge. |
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| Tottenham Jobspur | ||||||||
| Project development
and subsequent evaluation of joblink project which places Tottenham
residents in jobs outside the area (SRB/ Tottenham Territorial Employment
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