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FINAL PROGRAMME

Wednesday 22 April 2015

London Escalator Innovation Loft

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Summit information Contents Summit supporter Page 2 Programme at a glance Page 2 Final programme Page 3 Speaker’s biographies Page 5 Attendee list Page 9

Amendments Please check for amendments to the programme. Any changes will be announced regularly throughout the Summit. We apologise in advance if we have to amend the schedule. Showcase sessions Showcases will enable you to meet organisations working with young people and experience the best practices in the field focusing on tackling and supporting young people into employment. Delegates will be able to grab refreshments and free flow between showcase rooms. Access to sessions is first come, first served. Summit evaluation We value your comments about the quality of the programme and venue facilities. Please complete the evaluation form in your packs and return it to a member of staff at the registration desk. There will also be an opportunity to complete your evaluation online after the event. Summit registration Registration desk will be located in the foyer area and open during the following time: Wednesday 22 April 09:00–16:00 Summit blogs and news Inclusion will collate blogs and manifesto highlights and upload these onto event webpage www.YESummit.org.uk. Attendees will be notified when these are available.

Venue facilities Catering If you have informed us of any special dietary requirements, please make yourself known to the catering staff so that arrangements can be made for you. Coat rails There will be self serviced coat rails located in the foyer. This is not a secured area so we recommend you keeping your valuables with you at all times. Disabled access The venue is fully accessible. If you require assistance, please ask a member of the venue staff. A member of Inclusion staff will also be happy to assist.

Emergency procedures In the event of an emergency, delegates should make their way quickly and calmly to the nearest exit without collecting their belongings. Delegates should follow the guidance and instructions of the venue staff, and subsequently, the emergency services (if applicable). Messages If your organisation needs to reach you at the Summit, you should call the venue on 0203 095 6449, extension 3 for Whitechapel. Messages will be left with registration. Please state clearly the name of the event and the recipient of the message. Internet Access

The Studio has complimentary Wi-Fi services throughout the building. The access code is posted in all rooms. Follow the Summit on Twitter: @InclusionCESI @AELPUK #YouthES2015

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Summit supporter The Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion and AELP would like to thank Tomorrow’s People for being the Summit supporter.

The key to our success with unemployed young people is that each person who comes through our doors has a programme of support built around his or her individual issues. Our staff take young people at their lowest ebb, see them often, and build a strong and trusting relationship. We work together with each young person to build the skills that they need to find work, and we inspire them with the confidence and motivation to move forward with their lives.

Tomorrow's People aims not only to get young people into a job, but also to keep them there. We give all young people who find work up to a year’s support in their new role. We are an encouraging voice in the difficult early weeks and months of the journey into employment. We provide practical and financial help, such as a new set of work clothes or help with transport costs before the first month’s pay comes in. Our partnership with businesses large and small is one of the foundation stones of this success. Companies offer young people CV and interview training, act as mentors and provide work experience. Bridges are built. Young people who may think that working in a large company is not for them, have their aspirations raised; and employers meet young people who can bring a lot to their organisation. Tomorrow's People has a strong reputation for focusing in on the key issues facing young people in the marketplace. This is the reason we are working in partnership with ThinkForward to intervene even earlier in some young people’s lives to improve the chances of struggling pupils in school to ensure they make a successful transition. Young people who leave school without qualifications or experience of work are most at risk of long-term unemployment, and with private sector partners EOS, we are delivering the groundbreaking MyGo youth jobcentre in Ipswich, to pilot a different approach to supporting those who have become disengaged from the working world. With our proven methodologies, we hope to move even more young people from a life dependent on benefits, to a better future in work. Tomorrow’s People has helped over 465,000 people on their journey into employment since 1984, and we are aiming to help 500,000 people transform their lives through work by 2017. Mission: Employable what will you do?

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Programme at a glance

Time Foyer Auditorium Blue Coin Orange Web Jet Green

09:00 Registration and refreshments

09:45

Welcome and Introduction

09:55 Plenary: The challenge for young people

10:10 Plenary: Introducing the YES panellists

10:30 Plenary: A manifesto for change: pitching the offer to young people

11:15 Refreshments and showcases

11:15

Refreshments

1: London Youth: Making youth-led employability work

2: Impetus-pef: ThinkForward Progression Coach: ready for Work

3: Career Colleges across the UK: career-led education for young people

12:00

Plenary: A manifesto for change: pitching the offer to young people

12:45 Lunch

13:30

Plenary: Tackling the challenges for the next 10 years - what will future success look like?

13:50 Plenary: A manifesto for change: a future for success

14:40 Refreshments and showcases

14:40

Refreshments

4: Street League: change lives through football

5: Tomorrow’s People: MyGo

15:25 Plenary: What works for us

15:50 Summary

16:00 Close

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Final programme

09:00 Registration and refreshments Foyer

09:45

Welcome to Youth Employment Summit 2015

Chair: Laura-Jane Rawlings, Founder and Chief Executive, Youth Employment UK (YEUK)

Auditorium

09:55 Plenary: The challenge for young people

Speaker: Stewart Segal, Chief Executive, AELP

10:10 Plenary: Introducing the YES panellists

Adeboun Akindele, Tina Khan, Kashif Nijabat, Rob Senior, Andrew Taggart and Jack Welch

10:30 Plenary: A manifesto for change: pitching the offer to young people

Speakers: Raphael Dapaah, Campaigner and Officer, Youth Labour London Will Dyer, Chair, Liberal Youth London Ben Judge, President, King’s College London Conservative Society Azzees Minott, Green Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Warwick and Leamington

10:50 Q&A debate

11:15 Refreshments and showcases Foyer

11:15

Showcases

1 London Youth: Making youth-led employability work Youth Board representatives from the Talent Match London partnership will be presenting their learning from over two years of developing, commissioning and leading a programme that supports those furthest away from the labour market into fulfilling careers.

Facilitator: Steph Taylor, London Youth

Blue Coin

2 Impetus-pef: ThinkForward Progression Coach: Ready for Work The Ready for Work demo focussing on how ThinkForward introduces and impacts the work readiness capabilities of young people on the programme.

Facilitators: Shelly Khaled, Mohammod Ilaihim-Kawsar, Mahbuba Nishat, Amirah El-Bashary, Chelsea Taylor and Abigail Coates, ThinkForward

Orange Web

3 Career Colleges across the UK: career-led education for young people Career Colleges provide 14-19 year olds with employer-led, career-focused education – preparing them for the world of work. Against a background of youth unemployment, the over-arching goal of the Career Colleges Trust is that every young person leaving a Career College, will be in work, training or education. Specialising in key industries from Digital Technology to Hospitality to Professional Services, Career Colleges give young people a head start in their careers by developing the skills, knowledge and experience most prized by employers.

Facilitators: Ruth Gilbert and Clare Arnold, Career Colleges

Jet Green

12:00 Plenary: A manifesto for change: pitching the offer to young people

Speakers: Dr Fiona Aldridge, Assistant Director, Development & Research, NIACE Jeremy Crook OBE, Chief Executive, Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG) James Magowan, Business Director East of England, Tomorrow’s People

Auditorium

12:20 Q&A debate

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12:45 Lunch Foyer

13:30

Plenary: Tackling the challenges for the next 10 years - what will future success look like?

Chair: Laura-Jane Rawlings, Founder and Chief Executive, YEUK

Speaker: Tony Wilson, Director of Policy and Research, Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion

Auditorium

13:50

Plenary: A manifesto for change: a future for success

Speakers:

Auditorium

Ed Colverson, Head of Work Ready, Catch22 Apprenticeships and Employability Johnny Luk, Chief Executive Officer, the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) Kevin Munday, Programme Director, ThinkForward/Impetus-pef Russell Knight, Senior Head of Outreach, Assessment and Outcomes, Princes Trust

14:10 Q&A debate

14:40 Refreshments and showcases Foyer

14:40

Showcases

4 Street League: change lives through football An interactive discussion on the common barriers to helping young people into employment. Street League will showcase how their unique model aims to address these barriers by using football at each stage of a young person’s journey.

Facilitators: Nathan Persaud and Callum Simpson, Street League

Blue Coin

5 Tomorrow’s People: MyGo MyGo is the UK’s first employment centre and service especially designed for young people. A joint initiative between Tomorrow’s People and EOS, the centre is for young people in the 16-24 age groups living in the Great Ipswich area and looking to start a career. The MyGo team can assist young people with everything from creating a winning CV to holistic support to address barriers and enhance existing skills.

Facilitators: James Magowan, Tomorrow’s People and Dave McManus, EOS Works/MyGo

Orange Web

15:25 Plenary: What works for us Summary from the YES panellists

Adeboun Tina Andrew Kashif Rob Jack Akindele Khan Taggart Nijabat Senior Welch

Auditorium

15:50 Summary

Laura-Jane Rawlings, Founder and Chief Executive, YEUK Dave Simmonds OBE, Chief Executive, Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion

16:00 Close

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Young panellist’s biographies

Adeboun Akindele Adeboun is a final year undergraduate at the Cardiff Metripolitian University reading Business Studies. As an international student looking for a part-time job in the customer service

sector, she found it difficult to secure a position but after joining Tomorrow’s People, she was provided with opportunities to acquiring practical experience, CV help and links with entrepreneurs which enhanced her business knowledge and built up her confidence. The support from Tomorrow’s People has enabled Adeboun to become a more balanced and well rounded individual.

Tina Khan Tina was born in Tower Hamlets and whilst growing up in the borough, found there was a lack of role models to which she could relate to. That changed when Tina joined

ThinkForward at the age of 14. She has been an ambassador for the programme for the last four years and is passionate about supporting young people who, like herself, needed a positive influence in their lives to help them believe in themselves to achieve their best. She is currently pursuing an LLB Law degree at City University having previously completed an Extended Diploma in Business. Tina's aspiration now is to become a corporate lawyer.

Andrew Taggart Andrew has personal experience of youth unemployment. He is now employed as a Trainee Solicitor, but in his spare time he is involved in a number of voluntary projects to

boost employment and education opportunities for young people. Andrew is the Founder and Director of The Found Generation, a cross-party, not-for-profit campaign group to persuade politicians to take practical steps to tackle youth unemployment and prevent a “lost generation”. Andrew authored a report in July 2014 on “Practical Solutions to UK Youth Unemployment” (which was subsequently cited in Parliament) and co-authored The Found Generation’s recent Manifesto for Youth Employment. He is also Chair of the Advisory Board of the Youth Employment UK campaign.

Kashif Nijabat Kashif currently stands as a Job Ambassador for the Prince's Trust and is a keen film maker. His journey began seven years ago when life took

him down a criminal path. Kashif grew up on an estate where gangs and violence was a way of life. Taking initiative and getting involved with the Princes Trust, he enrolled onto a digital media course in film making. With a passion for the film industry and receiving a small grant from the Trust, he produced a short film on tackling gun and knife crime. Since then, he has worked on three feature films, music videos and several short films. He recently directed and produced a piece for Thomas Cook on location in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt. Working as a Job Ambassador for the Princes Trust, has enabled Kashif to combine his love for film making with raising awareness on challenges faced by young people today. Kashif‘s motto is “Breaking Barriers for Young People”.

Rob Senior 5 facts about me… 1) I have worked in a part time job as a support worker, helping young adults with special needs with life and media skills. 2) I have a Foundation

Degree in New Media, where I learned how to do lots of creative things with media, such as 3D Modelling, Graphic Design, Concept Art and Filming. 3) I have a YouTube channel called RSRobStar, where I post video blogs, lifestyle videos and gaming videos. 4) Whilst I was studying I was lucky enough to attend trips Rome and Paris with other fellow students, and visited famous and inspiring landmarks and museums during these trips. 5) Family and Friends are really important to me, they are all really supportive and I really cherish the times I spend with them. Jack Welch Jack is a graduate from the University of Winchester

with a degree in English and Creative Writing. Currently working as a freelance in his home in Dorset, he supports a wide variety of causes across the country. He is a Youth Ambassador for Youth Employment UK

and produces regular articles, represents at events and speaks on their behalf on a number of topical issues. He has additionally worked with charities like

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National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, the British Youth Council and YouthNet. Jack has worked in the Department for Communities and Local Government as a Youth Policy Advisor and has plenty of experience in public relations and marketing. His Fixers project on youth participation in heritage was recently featured on a number of ITV regional bulletins.

Speaker’s biographies

Dr Fiona Aldridge As NIACE Assistant Director for Development and Research, Fiona Aldridge leads on a range of functions including policy and practice across the Strategic Plan, the promotion of

learning to new audiences, the engagement of networks and the dissemination of key findings to policy makers and practitioners. Fiona’s responsibilities include managing and leading of development and research staff focused on NIACE’s strategic priority area - Learning in and for Work. She leads and co-ordinates all research activity across the organisation, including managing NIACE’s annual surveys into adult participation in learning. Fiona is NIACE’s relationship manager for the Skills Funding Agency, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and the British Army. Fiona joined NIACE in 1997 and progressed through a range of research roles to become Head of Research in 2003, leading on work that spanned the breadth of NIACE’s agenda. In the last two years, she has successfully established NIACE’s Learning for Work programme which is designed to improve the range and quality of learning that equips adults to gain, sustain and progress in employment.

Ed Colverson Ed is Head of Work Ready for Catch 22. His division ensures that young people have the skills and behaviours they need to be employable and are placed into meaningful work opportunities to start shaping their

career from. He has worked in the employment sector for eight years in a range of different roles. Over this time he has worked on a multitude of different employability contracts with a range of different target groups including learning disabilities, ex offenders, care leavers and NEET’s. He is also a qualified teacher. Ed is passionate about how to support people to develop the skills to be employable. These go in line with technical skills

that are industry specific, along with opening up a multitude of networks to enable people to have access to a range of opportunities.

Jeremy Crook OBE Jeremy has led the Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG) since 1992. BTEG is a national charity that works to improve education, skills, employment and entrepreneurship

outcomes for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. BTEG currently runs three main projects including Routes2Success, a new national role model which connects successful black men with groups of young black males (11-25 yrs); Opening Doors, a new London youth entrepreneurship programme for 18-30 unemployed individuals; and a national network for local voluntary groups working individuals and families involved in the criminal justice system funded by the Ministry of Justice. Jeremy has over 30 years experience of promoting equality and inclusion and developing practical solutions in the public, private and voluntary and community sector. He chairs the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Equalities Advisory Group and provides advice to Department for Work and Pensions Ethnic Minority Employment Stakeholder Advisory Group. He is also a non-executive Director of Greater London Enterprise, a trustee of West Ham United Community Trust and a member of the Assessment Committee for the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.

Raphael Dapaah Raphael is a political and social commentator and writer, as well as a Labour Party activist. He is passionate about youth participation, representation and awareness in

politics and has campaigned to increase the number of young people involved in the democratic process. He is interested in European affairs and international relations, and is a keen advocate for greater solidarity and unity between the UK and the EU. His interests include: History, Literature, Politics and the Arts. He graduated from the University of Warwick in 2014 after receiving a BA (Hons) in History and Politics.

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Will Dyer Will is the currently the Chair of London Liberal Youth where he works on many policy documents including the 2015 General Election manifesto.

He is an undergraduate student reading Politics at Queen Mary, University of London.

Ben Judge Ben is a final year undergraduate at King’s College London reading Political Economy. With a keen interest in academic and mainstream politics and economics, Ben has been President of

the KCL Conservative Society since March 2013. Ben has written a number of articles on a range of political topics for student led publications and made several media appearances on Sky News, debating, from a young person’s perspective, policy areas including higher education, unemployment and housing. Last summer, Ben interned at a Westminster based think tank. In addition, over the last two years he has taught debating through a charity at a secondary school in East London. He hopes to pursue a career in commercial law after graduating.

Russell Knight Russell is committed and dedicated to supporting young people on their journey into more positive futures through the Prince’s Trust. In his role as Senior Head of Outreach,

Assessment and Outcomes for the South region at the Trust he oversees the recruitment of around 9,000 of the hardest to reach young people onto Prince’s Trust programmes annually. His team then work at the end of a young person’s journey by support their next steps progressions into education, training, employment and volunteering. The Prince’s Trust are proud to have supported 77% of young people into a positive outcome of some kind during 2014/15 but are keen to push this bar higher, aspiring to hit 80% in this financial year. The passionate and inspiring teams of people they have working at the Prince’s Trust are critically linked to our success with young people and crucially their success when they leave the programme. Before his current role at the Trust he had quite a varied background. He trained as a Transportation specialist at Leeds University and then through a series of jobs found himself working on the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games firstly around the transport aspect of the Games but ultimately and more substantively in a role responsible for spreading the social benefits of the

Games, namely the Torch Relays, school education programme, Inspire project, Games Makers and Executive engagements, across the rest of the UK. Following the Games he worked to set up and establish the Volunteering legacy charity, Join In and then was successful in gaining this role with the Prince’s Trust. Throughout all of his roles, providing people with opportunities has been at the heart of what he does and he is proud and passionate to represent the Trust and the work they do to change young lives.

Johnny Luk Johnny is the Chief Executive of the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), working with entrepreneurial students across 200 UK campuses. Before this,

he was a Senior Policy Advisor and then the Deputy Head of Strategy for Entrepreneurship in the UK Government. He is also the co-Founder of Inspired & Hired, an award winning social enterprise and co-Founder of The Dream Foundation, a knowledge-sharing platform between UK and China. Johnny wrote the published book ‘The Grad Job Game,’ is a graduate from Durham University and was a former National Schools Rowing Gold Medallist.

James Magowan James leads on work in the East of England for Tomorrow’s People. He manages key relationships and builds partnerships with local stakeholders and ensures that Tomorrow’s People

deliver exemplary and cost effective services to service users. James was previously Director of Strategy, where he specialised in research and innovation and strategic business development. This included the conception and development of some of the charity’s key programme delivery models. James joined Tomorrow's People in January 2010 on secondment from specialist executive search firm Taylor Bennett. He holds a BA in French from the University of Liverpool and an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

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Kevin Munday Kevin is passionate about preventing youth unemployment. He is the Founding Director of ThinkForward, a programme providing young people

with long term and intensive support to ensure that they make a successful transition from school to work. ThinkForward is currently being incubated in Impetus - The Private Equity Foundation and, as well as leading and developing the programme, he also works as an Investment Director. In 2014 he was appointed as a Clore Social Fellow. Before creating ThinkForward, Kevin worked in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, where he was Deputy Head of Youth Services and then Head of 14-19 Development. Previous roles have included as Deputy Chief Executive of the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services and with the national charities Community Matters and St. John Ambulance. He is a qualified youth worker and teacher and has an MBA from Ashridge Business School. He recently started a Doctorate in Education at Homerton College, Cambridge. In his spare time he is a Director of the Young Lambeth Cooperative, the volunteer regional youth manager for St. John Ambulance in London and a school governor at St. Mary's Primary School in Islington. Previous positions have included as Chair of the British Youth Council, Vice Chair of the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council and as a director of the National Youth Agency. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Institute for Learning and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. He was named by The Guardian in 2008 as one of the 'Future 500' leaders in public life and by Striding Out in 2011 as one of the UK’s top 100 Social Entrepreneur.

Azzees Minott Azzees is a Green Party parliamentary candidate for Warwick and Leamington, currently working at the Coventry Citizens Advice Bureau. She received a BA Joint Honours in

International Relations and Politics, with study abroad experience, from Coventry University. During her time at university, Azzees was a member of and helped coordinate events for Student Union for Black History Month, Youth for Fair Trade, Parliament Week and the European Youth Event in Strasbourg. Azzees has participated in various youth-led organisations such as Youth Against Crime and was selected to publicly speak at the University of Oxford and Lloyds of London. Growing up and going to school in East London made Azzees particularly passionate about social justice, youth services and civic engagement, employment, education and housing. She has campaigned and

debated about NHS, youth engagement within politics, immigration and the EU.

Laura-Jane Rawlings Laura-Jane worked in the recruitment sector for a number of years achieving a high level qualification as a recruiter and also studied Careers Counselling. Laura-Jane has coached a number of

people to exceed their own career aspirations ranging from students to senior management personnel with great success. It was during her time in recruitment that she became aware of the gap between the education and employment sectors and found herself supporting a number of students to gain entry to employment. Laura-Jane became passionate about using her commercial and careers expertise in schools first in voluntary roles and then later she founded InspireEducation to focus on bridging the gap. Whilst establishing and then delivering the InspireEducation programmes Laura-Jane grew increasingly concerned about youth unemployment and the landscape for young people. Youth Employment UK CIC was born out of her passion to help more young people access opportunities and information that they needed to be successful, and from an understanding of the complex needs of business and their need for a responsive, community driven solution to their own skills gap and recruitment needs.

Stewart Segal Stewart was appointed to the role of AELP Chief Executive in July 2013. He has worked in the funded work based learning sector for over 20 years and in particular has supported AELP since its

formation. Previously, Stewart worked as an independent consultant within the training sector, working with a number of training providers and colleges specialising in business development and funding issues. Following a background in HR and general management in the private sector Stewart, joined Hertfordshire TEC in 1994 as Chief Executive. He also worked at the TEC for 4 years prior to joining Spring Skills as Chief Executive in 1998. Spring Skills was then the largest independent training provider in the sector involved in the delivery of a range of programmes in the service sectors such as retail, customer services, hospitality and business administration. Stewart is also a Director of the Talent Foundation a not for profit network of organisation committed to the development of talent at work.

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Dave Simmonds OBE Dave is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Inclusion. He has been involved in employment, skills and regeneration policy for the past 25 years and is one of the UK’s leading

commentators on welfare to work. Dave has a wide policy overview and in-depth expertise in a number of areas, including labour market economics and policy, disadvantage and social exclusion, learning and adult skills policy, regeneration and neighbourhood renewal, and area-based initiatives. As an economic geographer, he also has a background in quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Dave has experience of working with a wide range of organisations, from local community groups to government at senior levels, and was awarded an OBE in the honours list for summer 2005. Dave has been a special advisor to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee, theOECD Local Economic Employment and Development programme, and the Houghton Review on Tackling Worklessness. Previously, Dave worked as a director for the National Lottery Charities Board and for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. He has also worked in local government.

Tony Wilson Tony joined Inclusion as a Director in October 2011. He has more than ten years’ experience of policy and research, project management and delivery across a range of roles

in HM Treasury, the Department for Work and Pensions and Jobcentre Plus. Since joining Inclusion Tony has led on a range of projects including a feasibility study on developing a new employment programme in Northern Ireland, assessing approaches to tackling youth unemployment, analysis of supply and demand for skills, fragmentation of services for young people and evaluation of programmes to increase employment among inactive groups. Most recently, Tony led on employment policy and delivery at HM Treasury: advising on labour market trends, policy responses to the downturn, delivery of welfare to work programmes and benefit reform. Prior to this he was responsible for the design and delivery of a number of Department for Work and Pensions employment projects. This included overseeing the development and introduction of the Future Jobs Fund, which successfully created over 105,000 temporary jobs for long-term unemployed people; a successor programme to create work experience placements for unemployed young people; and projects to combine skills training, work experience and guaranteed job interviews. Tony has worked across a wide range of policy areas with a particular focus on welfare to work programmes, support for disadvantaged groups, local partnership working and the fit between employment and skills. He was an expert policy adviser to David Freud on his independent review of welfare to work, published in 2007. Tony has an MA from Selwyn College, University of Cambridge.

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