Jane Evans

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Jane Evans Head of European Social Fund Unit
DfEE
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Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP Minister for Employment,
Welfare to Work and Equal Opportunities
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Inequalities in the labour market

• Women
• Disabled people
• Ethnic Minority groups

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EQUAL objectives

• EQUAL will have 233 million to help
• employability
• business creation and adaptability
• lifelong learning
• gender pay gap
• asylum seekers

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Increase employment in disadvantaged areas

• making the New Deal a permanent deal
• 40 million for Action Teams for Jobs
• extra 379 million for childcare
• 96 million Phoenix Fund to support enterprise

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Empowering communities

• Neighbourhood Renewal Fund will provide 900
  million
• 35 million Community Empowerment Fund
• 50 million Community Chest Fund
• 45 million for neighbourhood management projects

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ADAPT EMPLOYMENT

• EQUAL builds on previous Community Initiatives,
  ADAPT EMPLOYMENT
• positive examples of transnational co-operation
  include projects run by
• Derby City Council
• South London Family Housing Association

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EQUAL

• promote innovation
• transnational co-operation
• test and disseminate new ideas
• inform future policy developments

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Mainstreaming

• EQUAL will help to mainstream new ways of
  tackling exclusion
• Involve policy makers and partners
• Ring-fenced funding

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Johanni Lonnroth Deputy Director-General
Employment and Social Affairs at the European
Commission
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Launch of the EQUAL Community Initiative
I. Introduction II. EQUAL in support of the
European Employment and Social Strategies III. The
role of EQUAL in responding to Community wide
challenges IV. EQUAL - a means to strengthen
partnerships for more and better jobs as well as
access to them V. The British EQUAL programme - a
promising response VI. Conclusion
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EQUAL

• EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND
• Community instrument to support the European
  Employment Strategy
• EQUAL
• Part of the European Social Fund
• Purpose to support equal access of all to the
  labour market
• and equal opportunity for all on the labour
  market
• EQUAL
• Successor arrangement for the previous Employment
  and Adapt programmes

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EQUAL in support of the European Employment
Strategy
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EQUAL
Searching for responses to challenges

• Unemployment
• Ageing work force
• Job opportunities for women
• People with disabilities
• Other disadvantaged individuals
• Deprived areas

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EQUAL
A new approach

• Combating social exclusion through access to jobs
• Prevention rather than cure
• Combating the emergence of dual labour markets
• Innovation
• Development of new practices to mainstream
• Networking and dissemination

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EQUAL
Four forms of partnership
Involving all levels of government

• Partnership between the Commission and each
  Member State
• Development partnerships
• Transnational partnerships
• Partnership for enlargement

Involving key actors at every level
Involving actors across Community borders
Coupling of Equal with candidate countries
programmes
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EQUALCalendar
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Panel Discussion
Jane Evans - ESF Unit, DfEE Lea Verstraete
European Commission Mary Gillard ESF Unit,
DfEE Heather Koranka Scottish Objective 3
Partnership Alan Manning TUC Tracey Breheny
National Assembly for Wales Tom Hadley - CBI
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Thematic Discussion Groups

• access to the labour market
• stimulating entrepreneurship
• promoting life long learning
• reducing gender gaps in employment
• promoting employment for ethnic minorities
• strengthening the social economy
• supporting adaptability of firms and workers
• asylum seekers

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http//www.esfnews.org.uk/equal
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