Local Employment Co-ordination
— Opportunities for Action
3. Improving services to unemployed people and beneficiaries

What you can achieve :

• Greater sensitivity to the needs of individual clients

• Unemployed people and beneficiaries being able to take advantage of a co-ordinated menu of assistance.

What you can do :

Develop holistic approaches to the needs of your clients.

  • Develop a strategy for "seamless service" between organisations, including a plan for reducing gaps, discrepancies and overlaps in service deliveries.
  • Facilitate the joint-agency training of front-line staff.
  • Develop co-operative protocols between agencies who are dealing with the same clients.

Facilitate the voice of unemployed people, beneficiaries and the general public in giving feedback to local groups and agencies.

  • Support the establishment of resource and support centres for unemployed people and beneficiaries.
  • Create customer focus-groups to give feedback on inter-agency services, procedures and effectiveness.

Improve access for clients to a co-ordinated menu of assistance in employment, training and income services.

  • Establish mobile service delivery in regions where distance to central offices is a barrier for access.
  • Establish a co-ordinated strategy of information delivery and assistance over the internet.
  • Establish specific service delivery strategies for minority groups, such as people with disabilities.


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