Memorandum from Workforce One Ltd
1. William Roe is a Director of Workforce
One Ltd, a specialist consultancy and design company that provides
solutions to workforce issues for governments, companies and communities.
The company is based in the UK and works both here and internationally.
2. Workforce One Ltd was established in
1999 to bring together the skills, experience and insights of
a group of specialists with substantial experience of tackling
unemployment, social exclusion, recruitment and retention, and
workforce development and investment issues.
3. Its two Directors each have over 20 years'
experience of analyzing problems and designing solutions to workforce
issues at national, regional and local level. Their experience
includes:
— Designing and managing British Shipbuilders
Enterprise Ltd in Scotland, created to tackle major redundancy
and transition issues when BS closed its shipyards on the Clyde
in the 1980's;
— Helping create a new international
company—Citizen Connect Ltd—to develop multimedia
software tools and services for individuals to empower them to
make well-informed decisions about their jobs and careers in a
dynamic labour market. The first product—Futures—has
been assessed by the University for Industry as the best in the
world and has been licensed by it to serve the needs of all its
learners;
— Helping create and support the two
most successful Intermediate Labour Market organizations in the
UK—The Wise Group and Glasgow Works;
— Carrying out an independent review
of the effectiveness of the prototype Employment Zones in England,
Scotland and Wales;
— Managing the European Commission's
first 5-year Action Programme to counter long-term unemployment
in the 1980's;
— Providing strategic planning and
review services for New Deal Partnerships in many parts of the
UK; and helping these Partnerships maximize their effectiveness;
— Conducting a ground-breaking review
and development strategy for all the services available to unemployed
people in Lanarkshire. The review has subsequently led to the
implementation of a multi-agency strategy to transform information,
advice, guidance, placement and support services into a unified,
quality assured, commonly-branded network.
— Working with private sector companies
to create a demand-led Centre to Excellence for Access to Employment
and Learning both for unemployed people and existing employees
in Edinburgh.
Workforce One Ltd
July 2000
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