The ERSA Employer Engagement Forum was formed as part of ERSA’s collaborative project with Jo Ingold at Deakin University and Tony Carr of 4 Front Partners.

Employer Engagement Forum | ERSA online | 7 June 

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Chairs: Tony Carr, 4 Front Partners and Associate Professor Jo Ingold, Deakin University

Agenda to be confirmed. Please email us at policy@ersa.org.uk if you have something to share.

Save the dates for future meetings, resources and news!

Universal Credit and Employers!
With Dr Katy Jones, Senior Fellow of the Centre for Decent Work and Productivity and Deven Ghelani, Chief Executive, Policy in Practice.
Watch on demand  (1 hour 30 minutes)

Book Launch: Employer Engagement -Making Active Labour Market Policies Work
Watch on demand (1 hour 30 minutes)

ReAct Partnership Research: Shared Employer Engagement ‘What Works’

Share your thoughts using #WorkingForBetterWork and follow ERSA on Linkedin for more updates and engagement.

Future Employer Engagement Forums
7 June, 12 September and 7 November 2023, all at 9am.

To suggest future items, please email the team via policy@ersa.org.uk.

For a list of other events coming up see dev.ersa.org.uk/events or follow ERSA via Eventbrite to be notified when events go live.

The ERSA Employer Engagement Forum was formed as part of ERSA’s collaborative project with Jo Ingold at Deakin University and Tony Carr of 4 Front Partners. The aim of the Forum is to increase the effectiveness of employment and skills initiatives by improving business engagement by:

• Influencing government and opposition parties about the importance of employers as a customer of employability and skills programmes
• Influencing commissioners to take account of the demand-side (employers) at the very start of the commissioning process
• Feeding in evidence and data to both commissioners and the employability sector
• Exploring and mapping good practices where they already exist
• Sharing good practice and resources to overcome challenges to business engagement

The first forum came together in April 2020, as the first ERSA Online meeting, our answer to lockdown.

The archives…

Watch part of the meeting in December 2020, Making Kickstart Inclusive
watch again (26 mins)

September 2020

Making first calls to new employers
Audrey Bodman, Expert Trainer, Outshine Telephone Training & Resources
https://www.telephonetraininguk.co.uk/

Marks and Start after lockdown 
Leanne Rivett, Marks & Start Employability Manager, Marks and Spencer

ERSA and sector update
Elizabeth Taylor, Chief Executive, ERSA

19 August 2020 included updates on;

• ERSA and Leeds University Business School employer engagement project
• The Growth Company will reflect on their good practice employer engagement approach
• Cognisoft will discuss the use of technology to inform good employer engagement

ERSA members can view slides and further information in the Members Toolkit.

Open to ERSA members and guests. ERSA members can sign up to the forum by registering for a future meeting or selecting ’employer engagement’ in their subscription preferences.

Forum members have been asked to consider the following points;

• What would you like the Employer Engagement Forum to do for your organisation?
• Please send us your suggestions for future speakers
• Would you like to showcase the work of your organisation, or talk about a particular challenge?
• Please also send us your thoughts about collaboration and co-opetition in commissioning

More information on how to join ERSA membership here

Continue the conversation:

Join the conversation over on Linkedin for regular updates and collaboration (open access to all with an interest)

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8961230/

Further information:

Membership@ersa.org.uk