Presentation to Idel

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PRESENTATION TO IDELE SEMINARon Limerick
Local Employment ServiceOctober 2004
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Limerick City

• INCREASED PROSPERETY
• SPATIALLY CONCENTRATED DEPRIVATION
• INCREASED POLARIZATION

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PAUL Mission Statement

• To enhance Social and Economic Inclusion in
  Limerick City through the achievement of
  sustainable change by working together in equal
  partnership with Individuals, Communities,
  Service Providers, both Statutory Voluntary,
  the Social Partners Policy Makers

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Local Employment Service Goal

• Provide a client focused, integrated,
  personalised service to meet the needs of
  long-term unemployed people in accessing
  meaningful employment and employment related
  opportunities.

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Target Groups

• Long Term Unemployed
• Dependant Spouses
• Lone Parents
• People With Disabilities
• Ethnic Minorities
• Members of Travelling Community
• Young People

20 Referral Through National Employment Action
Plan
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Specific Objectives

• To optimise the effectiveness integration of
  employment related opportunities.
• To provide Information, Guidance, Mediation
  Placement service.
• To improve access for the target population to
  employment employment related opportunities.
• To promote the development of innovative,
  tailor-made training/education programs which
  will facilitate progression towards employment.

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Specific Objectives contd

• To provide a structured system of ongoing support
  for those place placed
• To address policy issues and eliminate
  institutional barriers which preclude the target
  population from accessing employment employment
  related opportunities.
• To ensure that the personnel employed in the
  Local Employment Service have the knowledge
  skills required to provide a needs led service in
  a friendly-non-threatening environment.

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Local Employment Service Ethos

• Professionally delivered
• Voluntary
• Confidential
• Enabling Empowering client
• Emphasis Progression towards employment.

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Outreach DSFA
Outreach Adult Education
Outreach Youth Services
Outreach New Areas
LES
Our Lady Of Lourdes
St Marys
MECO
Moyross
Southill
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Elements of Service

• Information Provision
• Career Guidance
• Mediation / Placement
• Employer Liaison
• Training / Development
• After Care
• Regular Evaluation Research

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Microsoft Training Initiative

• Rapidly Growing IT Sector in Limerick
• Identified Job Opportunities
• Training
• Basic Computer Skill
• Advanced Technical skills Microsoft
  Qualification
• Work Experience
• Soft Skills
• Employment Skills
• 20 Participants
• Mainstreamed
• Partners

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Warehouse Operative Training

• Recurring Job Vacancies
• Employer Contact
• Training
• Warehouse Procedures Quality
• Numeracy
• Inter Personal Skills
• Forklift Driving
• Work Experience
• 8 Participants
• Partners

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Issues Linked to Lisbon

• A Dual Stranded National Employment Service
• Value of Local Approach
• Profile of Target Groups
• Tyranny of Knowledge
• Role of Education Policies
• Circumstances in which Knowledge based Economy
  can Flourish

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