The Tyne and Wear City Region (TWCR) Partnership for Employment and Skills has developed a Management Information System; the Hanlon System. The system provides a robust client tracking tool that enables the multiple transfer of data and performance information to support delivery of employment and skills provision.

The system has over 800 users, 120,000 clients registered and over 10,000 business records. Use of the Hanlon System has become a key component in the delivery of employability services across the North East Region.

The TWCR has just secured funding to continue use of the system amongst the existing network of over 200 providers across the North East in 2011/12. This is an important development, which provides an existing infrastructure upon which to build and deliver an effective service to the long term unemployed across the North East.

If you would like to discuss the information attached, request hard copies of the booklet or would like to arrange a demonstration of the Hanlon Data Management System please contact the Tyne and Wear City Region Employment and Skills Team on 0191 6436060. 
 

Hanlon Software Solutions take customer information security very seriously. Obtaining the ISO 27001 certification means that they have ensured that adequate controls addressing confidentiality, integrity and availability of information that is vital to their business are in place to safeguard information so that their customers can be confident that their data is fully secure.”

• Meet and hear about the approach being taken by the shortlisted Prime Providers (announced on 25th November 2010) in the TWCR;

• Provide partners with the chance to ask questions and seek clarification on a number of issues, which will affect delivery of the Work Programme, and;

• Provide partners with an opportunity to shape the delivery of the Work Programme in this area.     

Over 120 delegates attended the event, including representatives from the nine shortlisted Prime Contractors for the DWP framework for the provision of employment related support services.

Further information on the event including the key findings from workshops held on the day are included in the attached report. Click here.

Feedback on the event itself is also available in a summary report. Click here. 

The document for Tyne and Wear City Region is available here.

We would welcome further discussion with any provider who wishes to understand the North East's requirements. In addition, we will be hosting events in December with the shortlisted potential prime contractors and we look forward to working directly with you.   

JobMoves News, is the employment mobility newsletter, which will keep you up to date with the progress of the JobMoves pilot. The Autumn 2010 edition is available here.  

There are a number of project objectives:  

• Identify gaps and duplications in provision to inform future planning, alongside mapping provider performance.

• Provide robust information to influence local, sub-regional, city-regional, regional and national funding streams and priorities, covering all adult employability.

• Identify activities to address worklessness which are being funded directly by discretionary funding streams and mainstream programmes. 

• Identify, develop and maintain the funding/provision picture through the use of enhanced IT functionality (eg Hanlon Data Management System).

• Influence the targeting of resources available locally, sub regionally, city regionally, regionally and nationally.

• Create links between existing regional database(s).

• Help build partnership capacity to assume greater responsibility for commissioning and co-ordinating employment services.

• Optimise existing networks to both showcase and further build the capacity of Local Authorities in improving employability across the region.

   

For further information contact:

Donna McIntyre – Project Manager

North East Improvement & Efficiency Partnership

E: donna.mcintyre@northeastcouncils.gov.uk

Find out more about our programmes at www.northeastiep.gov.uk

This development builds on the good work already undertaken to develop the Hanlon Skills Register System with work completed over the last three years aligning activities and developing a common data framework. This has enabled more effective use of the system and performance reporting at a City Region, sub-region and local level.

For further information on the Provider Portal or the Hanlon Data Management System please contact Jonah Morris on 0191 6436060.