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by Daniel on 19 Dec, 2008 in
The website and newswire have been growing over the past 18 months. It's now reached ubiquity - I went to a CESI conference on Wednesday, and almost everyone there was a subscriber. And what they all asked me, immediately after saying they read it every week, was:
by Daniel on 15 Dec, 2008 in
by Daniel on 31 Oct, 2008 in
The forums have been simplified to a straightforward discussion area, and there's now a tag cloud of popular topics at the bottom of the front page. We've kept the old links to everything working, so you (hopefully) shouldn't hit any problems with missing pages.
by Daniel on 13 Oct, 2008 in
There's now an Events button in the menu that shows you all the upcoming events for welfare-to-work practitioners in the UK. If you log in, you can create and edit your own events. We'll also be looking to improve things and add premium features for event organisers in the coming weeks. As always, feel free to make suggestions, criticisms etc!
by Daniel on 25 Sep, 2008 in
We've just launched a database of providers and contracts, covering all the contract information that the DWP have published on their website. However, that still leaves a fair bit of information that's missing or outdated. Contract values, their running dates, and any information whatever about Employment Zones and PSL contracts are all missing.
by Daniel on 4 Sep, 2008 in
The newsletter hasn't been sent out for a couple of weeks, so the next one may be fairly large to cover the backlog of stories. Apologies for the break in service - it's proving more difficult than I suspected to run the site from rural Italy!
by Daniel on 4 Jul, 2008 in
We've published the Pathways to Work, NDDP, ESF and fND PQQ results prior to their official announcement on the DWP website. However, the DWP are apparently a bit grumpy about this - their view is that it jumps the gun and that subcontractors and staff in companies will assume results that may still change. Conversely, most providers and subcontractors I speak to say they prefer to find out what's going on as soon as possible.
What do you think? Should we publish future results or not?
by Daniel on 6 Jun, 2008 in
We've upgraded the user registration and login processes, and made the site content more accessible for people who aren't logged in. The major thing that's changed is that you can log in with your e-mail address OR user name now. Let us know if you have any problems.
by Daniel on 30 May, 2008 in
Update 30th May - We've cancelled deployment of the FND Announce tool as the DWP are now setting up their own database. To go on the DWP database, you need to complete the Excel stencil attached to this post and e-mail it to sheffieldmayfieldcourt.flexiblenewdeal@dwp.gsi.gov.uk. The DWP's invitation letter for the database is here and some other ways to get yourself heard can be found here.
We've been working on a clever tool for both primes and subcontractors over the past two days, and could do with some feedback on whether people would find it useful.
