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KEEP policy group

The KEEP project has established a Policy Group in order to ensure that the lessons learnt from the partnership are effectively publicised to key policy makers at a local, regional, national and European level. Members of this group include Kent County Council Social Services as the lead partner for the KEEP project, together with local representatives from Careers Management, the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), Job Centre Plus, Kent Guidance Consortium, and the Government Office for the South East Region (GOSE).

A copy of the Strategy and Action Plan for the KEEP Policy Group is available in the documents and resources section of this site.

Activities

The policy group, in consultation with KEEP partners has produced a key messages paper outlining the key learning points and achievements of KEEP during Action 2 (May 2002-04),as well as suggestions for and examples of mainstreaming outcomes during Action 3 (August 2003- November 2005). A copy of the paper can be downloaded from the documents and resources page.

KEEP has produced a policy leaflet with key messages for policy makers and case studies of examples of some of the more than 600 people that KEEP has helped since May 2002. For a copy of the leaflet, please visit our documents and resources page.

On 2nd October 2003, a joint seminar was held with other Equal projects in Brussels to an audience of the European Commission and others involved in the planning of the next round of the Equal programme. For details of this event, please see our events and activities page.

Policy contact

For all policy issues regarding KEEP, please contact Ben Gladstone at EISS.