Our eight core messages for the Kickstart Scheme

Our eight core messages for the Kickstart Scheme

This is a very significant – but one-off – intervention in the labour market. 

Getting Kickstart working will take more than a pot of cash for businesses

Getting Kickstart working will take more than a pot of cash for businesses

No one was more pleased to see Kickstart announced than me.

Share Your Thoughts About Kickstart

The new Government Kickstart Programme will be providing fully funded temporary jobs for young people from the Autumn.

Getting Kickstart Working - My Top 5 Recommendations to Make Kickstart a Success

I’ve been part of the Youth Employment Group since it began a week or so into lockdown, it’s been brilliant to see 100s of committed organisations sharing their views on what’s going to matter moving forward.  The Government’s announcements investing in jobs, training and support for young people is exactly what we need and what we ALL called for. 

How isolation has brought us even closer

How isolation has brought us even closer

Lockdown – Appreciation, simplicity and connection

This past 100 days have been a blur, a roller coaster ride. There we were, rushing here and there meeting, eating, driving, and surviving, lurching from one event to another. Then it all suddenly stopped. Nothing gradual about it. It’s like I rode by bicycle into a wall. It was a shock. Stay At Home!

Employability Day 2020

Employability Day 2020

This time last year we packed the main hall in Blackburne House with enthusiastic people, it was a roasting hot day too. How times have changed.

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