[WiLT] Empowerment, Welfare & Work: In Work, Better Off?

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Empowerment, Welfare & Work: In Work, Better Off?

Thursday 22nd November 2007 from 09:30 to 17:00
* Ashley Centre, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent
* (3 mins walk from Stoke-on-Trent Stn & Close to M6, Jn 15)

The conference is a bi-annual forum for advisers in advice-giving
organisations, law firms, HRM managers, and others with interests in
welfare and employment.

It enables participants to:
* Debate topical areas of welfare and employment policy, law and
practice
* Update and share knowledge
* Make recommendations to the government on current programmes &
policies

Conference topics:
* The welfare and employment rights of 'empowerment' groups
* Incapacitated/disabled claimants and workers
* Lone parents, including those on benefits and working part-time
* Older claimants/workers
* Ethnic minority claimants & workers

Plus: Employment Support Allowance, Pathways to Work, new
'conditionality' rules, lone parent's work-focused interviews,
flexible working, changes to carers' benefits, better off/worse off
advice, and employment rights.

Confirmed speakers include:
* Prof. Keith Ewing - King's College London, President, IER: Chair &
Overviews
* Paul Treloar - Disability Alliance: Empowerment, ESA & Pathways to
Work
* Emily Holzhausen - Carers UK: Caring for the Carers?
* Jim Crosbie - Toyota (UK) Ltd, HRM Director: A (Good) Employer's
Perspective
* Mark Savage - SU Social Work & Advice Studies & Alan Markey -
Citizens Advice & Editor of The Adviser: The Challenges for Advisers &
Advice Organisations
* Helen Robson & Emor Porteous - SU/Citizens Advice: Benefits/Tax
Credits Studies Case Studies
* Gareth Morgan - Ferret Information Systems: Better Off, Worse Off?
The Uses of IT
* Keith Puttick - SU Law School & Tsungai Mukangnga, NSREC: Employment
Rights in Welfare-to-Work Transitions
* Nicola Smith - TUC: Vulnerable Workers & Unequal Rights
* Ian Moss - Citizens Advice Employment Unit: Employment Rights
* Catherine Casserley - Temple Cloisters (ex-DRC): The Role & Uses of
Discrimination Law
* John Duddington - WLS: Carers' Benefits, 'Flexibility' & Employment
Rights

Who should attend?
* Welfare & employment advisers, Trade Union officers, HRM managers,
academics & others with employment & welfare rights interests.

Fee:
* £80 incl VAT; £60 CABx, DIAL, & advice organisations that are
charities.

Includes:
* Updates & case studies, workshop materials, speaker notes, etc for
cascading training, lunch/refreshments, free parking by venue, 6 Hours
CPD.

Download further information and a booking form from the link below(*)
and return to Janice Halpin, Staffordshire University, 3rd Floor
(311), Brindley Building, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DF or E-mail
it j.halpin at staffs.ac.uk

Bookings Queries: J. Halpin 01782 294175.

(*)
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/aboutus/news_and_events/news_events/sep_03_empowerment.pdf

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