Jobcentre Plus and Childrens Centre Partnership Lisa McIntosh Childcare Partnership Manager Bedfords

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Jobcentre Plus and Childrens Centre
PartnershipLisa McIntoshChildcare Partnership
ManagerBedfordshire and Hertfordshire District

• Lone Parents smoothing the way to work
• Welfare to Work UK convention 2008 (25/26 June)

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Jobcentre Plus aims to

• provide work for those who can and support for
  those who cannot.

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Childrens Centres

• Aim to ensure children have the best start in
  life and the gap between the most disadvantaged
  children and their peers is narrowed.
• Currently 2,500 nationally.
• By 2010 there will be 3,500.

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Working together to

• get parents into sustainable employment and
  reduce the number of children living in poverty.

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How in Beds and Herts?

• District Managers 20 Challenge
• Background
• Details of the challenge
• Results
• Further pilots in Childrens Centres
• Options and Choices
• Pathways to Work

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Contact details

• Lisa McIntosh
• Childcare Partnership Manager
• Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire District
• Jobcentre Plus
• Tel [phone]
• E-mail lisa.mcintosh_at_jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk