April2002 Comment v5

www.bsl.org.auBrotherhoodCommentISSN 1320 8632April 2002A regular update from Social Action and ResearchNew ways to workJoanna Dimopoulos, the Brotherhood’s General Manager for Partnerships From the ground upEmployment Opportunities, recently spent time in the UK Inclusive and purposeful partnerships are a critical Groundwork is a leading UKexamining employment initiatives. element in the implementation of the ‘employment environmental regeneration first’ and ‘regeneration’ approach to job creation. charity, comprising a federation In the United Kingdom, New Labour’s policies ofof local trusts. It seeks tosustainable social and economic inclusion, Local Strategic Partnerships, as demonstrated by the reconnect people with their particularly the emphasis on ‘economic Glasgow Alliance and Liverpool City Council, bring natural surroundings by providingparticipation’ and an ‘employment first’ welfare stakeholders and planners together to develop salaried work and training thatsystem, have facilitated a major paradigm shift holistic, multi-pronged community strategies for support local economies. Into more holistic and broad-based approaches regeneration and service provision. Alongside 2000–01 Groundwork createdto job creation. New jobs and training are these relatively broad strategies is the social inclusion 1000 jobs, worked with 100,000integrated with economic, cultural, social and partnership (SIP) which is often narrowly targetted to young people and ...