1.4.2009
Cornwall Works 50+ (Cornwall Council)
Piloting a series of innovative ideas, Cornwall Works 50+ will look at new ways to support older people to overcome the challenges they may face when seeking employment, such as care responsibilities, health conditions or confidence and skills issues.
To achieve this, Cornwall Council, through Inclusion Cornwall will work with Designs of The Time (DOTT), a Design Council initiative, which will engage with older people, employers and public sector organisations to identify the challenges older people face in the labour market and find ways to tackle them with the aim of enhancing the support already offered through Cornwall Works, the umbrella for delivery of employment and skills activity to raise employment rates and tackle worklessness in Cornwall.
As the trend in the UK for an ageing population is expected to continue, Cornwall Cares 50+ will seek ways to strengthen the Care Sector workforce to help meet future care needs. This project aims to identify what needs to be done to make care a more attractive sector to work in and will seek initiatives to attract, train and recruit people into care work, in particular those over 50 and young people who are not in work, education or training or are at risk of becoming so.
Finding ways to bring the generations together is also part of this project, with the aim of developing greater understanding and rapport, as well as sharing older people’s expertise and experience with younger people who are just entering the job market or looking to develop entrepreneurial opportunities.
Cornwall Works 50+ is one of three transnational initiatives within the Convergence Programmes, the other two being Cornwall Works 50+ Cares and Skills for Climate Change. Working with partners in parts of France and Finland which face similar demographic issues to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall Works 50+ will share best practice.
Rich Emerson
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For Further Information
Cornwall Works 50 + Cares
Cornwall Works
Designs of the Time (DOTT)
