New Zealand Friday, May 08, 1998 >From Vivian Hutchinson -- Hello Futurework, Ced-Net, Toes97 and Unemployment Network friends. A colleague of mine here in New Zealand will be in Birmingham for the TOES 98 conference / People's Summit / G8 world leaders summit (on 15-17 May) and staying on for a week afterwards in the Birmingham/ London area. She is Jan Francis, a manager of the Local Employment Co-ordination committee networks which exist throughout NZ, and also has extensive experience in community action on employment issues. A fuller biographical note about Jan is at the end of this letter. Jan's interest in attending the Birmingham conference is to find out what the G8 leaders have to say about practical and pragmatic solutions to our unemployment problems, and also to tap into the wisdom of the TOES / People's Summit networks to see what the leading edges of thinking are on this issue today. I am writing to see if anyone else on futurework, ced-net, or the UK unemployment list are intending to be at Birmingham, and would like to meet with Jan to especially network on employment / unemployment issues and the future of work. If you write back to me, I will forward the messages to Jan (as she is at present travelling). Yours Vivian Hutchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editor, The Jobs Letter ABOUT JAN FRANCIS ---------------------------------- Jan Francis has an extensive background in employment issues having worked in the community, local government and government sectors. Within the community Jan has been involved in women's employment issues, and ran a Women's Employment Trust. She has been a Board member of a number of employment related Trusts in Christchurch and involved in community economic and employment networks. She recently completed a Masters thesis on Women's Enterprise development in New Zealand 1984-1994 - a case study of a women's enterprise agency. As the manager of the Employment Services Unit with the Christchurch City Council Jan developed community initiatives and resourced community groups, set up a Youth Employment Service, and a training facility and ran government subsidised work schemes. For the last eighteen months she has worked for the Labour Department on local employment co-ordination - an initiative which seeks to co-ordinate employment activities at the local level across the private, public and community sectors and to assist communities to develop local solutions to unemployment. ends ------ vivian Hutchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone 06-753-4434 fax 06-759-4648 P.O.Box 428 New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand visit The Jobs Research Website at http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/
