Date: 17/01/08

Organisation Name: Cymdeithas Alzheimer's Society

Email Address: arowlands@alzheimers.org.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: Initially Gwynedd and Ynys Mon

Organisation Core Business: The Alzheimer's Sociewty is the leading care and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them

Comment on this Framework: The publications - 'Dementia UK' 2007,(Kings College etc.)and 'Improving support and services for people with dementia' 2007 (National Audit Office)identify the need for the provision of better skills and services for people with dementia and those who care forn them.
It is predicted that the number of persons with dementia acroos Wales will rise by an average of 30% and in Gwynedd and Ynys Mon by 35% by 2021.
Proposal is that by providing training courses in individual care homes, training centres and support for individual carers:
(a)Provide skills to family carers to enable them to: (i) become better equipped to continue their caring role and (ii)provide skills for the workplace once their caring role is over.
(b)Raise the skills levels of care home staff
(c) Raise the skills levels of domiciliary care staff.
End beneficiaries will be:
(a) Family or 'informal' carers of people with dementia
(b) Staff in carehomes
(c) Domiciliary care staff
Project will be deleivered by Qualified Trainers, supported by
Administrator(s) employed by the Society Areas to be covered: Initially Gwynedd and Ynys Mon
Outputs: Improved Skills with NVQ qualifications Result of project: Better skilled care workforce, former carers skilled in readiness for workplace employment.
Scale of project: Seen as initial three year pilot.
Esimated cost: Over three year period £325.969 Match funding: Sources - Local Authorities, Welsh Assembly Govvernment, Big Lottery Fund, Grant goving organisations.

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Date 18/12/07

Organisation Name: Clouds

Email Address: maggieandphill@homecall.co.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: pembrokeshire

Organisation Core Business: Providing food and running sustainable cafe's in needy areas

Comment on this Framework: I am seeking to develop a training scheme linking sustainable local food chains with diatery needs of unemployed and disadvantaged people and training them and others in food production and hospitality trade and develop Welsh cuisine in order to tie into the growing tourist industry in West Wales in a sustainable way.

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Date: 20/11/07

Organisation Name: Antur Teifi

Email Address: kharrington@anturteifi.org.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: Carmarthenshire/Ceredigion or the geographic region of West Wales

Organisation Core Business: Rural regeneration; Business and Ebusiness Services; Projects

Comment on this Framework: Our interest is as a delivery partner within the local authority areas of Carmarthenshire/Ceredigion or the geographic region of West Wales. As an organisation we have the personnel with relevant skills and experience, along with the infrastructure and systems to assist with the delivery of projects/programmes.

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Date: 02/10/07

Organisation Name: Brecon Chamber of Trade and Commerce

Email Address: carolyn@castlestreetrestaurant.co.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: Brecon, Powys

Organisation Core Business: Representing traders in Brecon

Comment on this Framework:

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Date: 28/09/07

Organisation Name: Oxfam

Email Address: lhughes@oxfam.org.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: Wales wide for this programme but International organisation

Organisation Core Business: To work with other to alleviate poverty

Comment on this Framework:

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Date: 11/09/07

Organisation Name: Sewta (South East Wales Transport Alliance)

Email Address: martin@bucklem.fsnet.co.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: South East Wales

Organisation Core Business: Transport Planning & Scheme Delivery

Comment on this Framework: Consultation on the draft Strategic Framework for Increasing Employment and Tackling Economic Inactivity

Response by the South-East Wales Transport Alliance (Sewta)

Author: Programme Manager


GENERAL

Comment 1

The document would be more user friendly, and easier to discuss and respond to, if it were populated with paragraph numbers.


SECTION 4

Comment 2

Regional Competitiveness & Employment

This section of the Framework remains to be added. Sewta would welcome the opportunity to be further consulted on this element.


SECTION 5 - Interventions & Delivery Approaches – Theme 1

Comment 3

This theme would benefit from an explicit recognition of the role of inaccessibility to job opportunities as a barrier to raising activity rates, and a recognition of transport investment as an element of the solution to the problem. It is requested that the Framework is amended to include an additional intervention which explicitly addresses this key barrier. Measures could specifically include supporting public transport and community transport services which link peripheral estates and communities with high levels of deprivation, with areas where job opportunities are concentrated. It is noted that key target groups for this priority will include people in receipt of incapacity benefits, young people who are NEET, people from BME communities, women returnees, older people wanting to re-enter employment, lone parents and others for whom caring responsibilities are a barrier to work. All of these target groups are particularly affected by transport as a barrier to economic activity.

Comment 4

It is noted that intervention 7, targeted at employers, recognises the need to tackle travel to work issues. A key measure in this regard would be to offer support to employers in preparing and implementing travel plans, which facilitate travel by means other than the car, and are of particular relevance to those without access to a car, who are strongly represented amongst those who are economically inactive. It is requested that the Framework is amended to make specific reference to this measure.


SECTION 9

Comment 5

It is noted that the Framework will be reviewed and updated. It is requested that Sewta is consulted on any proposals for changes, and is informed of any changes that are subsequently made.


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Date: 16/07/07

Organisation Name: Pembrokeshire College

Email Address: n.howells@pembrokeshire.ac.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: Pembrokeshire and West Wales

Organisation Core Business: FE Institution

Comment on this Framework:

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Date: 02/07/07

Organisation Name: The ITC

Email Address: admin@theitc.co.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: Wales, UK

Organisation Core Business: Assisting businesses to make best use of modern technologies to improve business performance and encourage business growth, while developing flexible working practice to achieve a better work-life balance for all employees, and family-friendly working practices that will also facilitate increased competitiveness in a global market

Comment on this Framework: Flexible, ‘smarter’ working is a key development in modern business practice, recognised by the establishment of the Work Wise UK national standard and associated Quality mark. Smarter working will be fundamental to the sustainable growth of Welsh business within the knowledge economy, bringing real business benefits, encouraging inclusion and equal opportunity for employment for all, and contributing to environmentally-friendly policies.
New management skills and workforce development will be required to support smarter working, which in turn will support and encourage research activity, the development of capacity, the use of ICT and an appropriate infrastructure, a stronger environment for enterprise, energy conservation and efficiency, sustainability for all new and developing enterprises, and improved skills and adaptability for all workers – whether in employment or seeking it, young or old, male or female, with or without any disability.
We welcome this strategic approach to the issues, and look forward to the development of appropriate projects.

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Date: 22/06/07

Organisation Name: Anglesey County Council

Email Address: eirianwynne@anglesey.gov.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: Anglesey

Organisation Core Business: Local Authority

Comment on this Framework:

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Date: 13/06/07

Organisation Name: Gofal Cymru

Email Address: danharker@gofalcymru.org.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: South East, South West and Mid Wales.

Organisation Core Business: Mental Health Charity: housing, floating support, crisis management, general mental health needs.

Comment on this Framework: We are interested in working with partners who wish to develop mental health provision throughout Wales.

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Date: 07/06/07

Organisation Name: Coleg Morgannwg

Email Address: e.baldascino@morgannwg.ac.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: Mainly Rhondda Cynon Taf

Organisation Core Business: FE College

Comment on this Framework: Would be happy to contribute to design and delivery of programmes to meet the specific needs of economically inactive people incl provison of employability skills and basic and vocational skills.

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Date: 23/05/07

Organisation Name: Menter Fachwen

Email Address: cjones@menterfachwen.org.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: Gwynedd

Organisation Core Business: Community Learning, Economic Development & Learning Disability

Comment on this Framework:

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Date: 17/05/07

Organisation Name: Coleg LLandrillo Cymru

Email Address: d.watkin@llandrilllo.ac.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: N Wales Convergence area

Organisation Core Business: F E College. Experience in the design and delivery of programmes to meet the sepcific needs of economically inactive people oncl proviison of employability skills and basic and vocational skills.

Comment on this Framework:

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Date: 10/05/07

Organisation Name: Community Transport Association UK (Wales)

Email Address: betsan@ctauk.org

Geographical Area of Operation: all-Wales

Organisation Core Business: Providing leadership, learning and enterprise support to organisations delivering flexible and accessible transport solutions to achieve social change in their communities.

Comment on this Framework:

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Date: 08/05/07

Organisation Name: Gwynedd Economic Partnership

Email Address: PEG@gwynedd.gov.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: Gwynedd

Organisation Core Business: Local Economic Partnership

Comment on this Framework:

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Date: 08/05/07

Organisation Name: Gwynedd Council

Email Address: ViviennePritchard@gwynedd.gov.uk

Geographical Area of Operation: Gwynedd

Organisation Core Business: Local Authority

Comment on this Framework:

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Date: 16/04/07

Organisation Name: Bridgend College

Email Address: anotley@bridgend.ac.uk

Geographical Area Of Operation: Primarily Bridgend, with students coming from West Wales as far as Carmarthen, East Wales over to Merthyr and also the Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff

Organisation Core Business: Education

Comment on this Framework: We have vast experience in providing skills and training to all students with a variety of needs and disabilities. We would like to use this experience to help deliver ESF project in the region.