Last week the government launched a new web site - ‘Real Help Now’ - to help individuals and businesses weather the current economic storm. The site provides links to regional assistance but in reality it points straight to the usual support agencies - Business Link, Train to Gain, Job Centre Plus. It does detail some of [...]

Response to Redundancy, ESF, Joint Action Plan, ERAP, New Deal, Flexible New Deal… the list of documents, initiatives, and strategies for ways to drag us out of the recession and get back people into work seems endless. Whilst they will play a part in providing people with the right skills for the right job, we still need [...]

Recently DWP outlined future bidding opportunities for Welfare to Work programmes in a UK round of information events.
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By 2011 over 200 new outcome focused contracts will be awarded worth up to £5bn, including:
§    Flexible New Deal
§    JCP Support Contract
§    IDEAS
§    ESF 2007-2013
§    Progress to Work
§    Work for your Benefit
§    Invest to Save Pathfinders (AME-DEL)
§    Personalised [...]

One of the most controversial citrus fruit squeezers of the 20th century, Juicy Salif by Alessi is also one of the icons of design of the 1990’s, and it continues to be one of the most provocatively intelligent articles of the Alessi collection.
The squeezer was designed by Phillipe Starck his brief was to design a tray… It [...]