Brotherhood Comment August 2010

ISSN 1320 8632A regulAr updA te from the reseArch And policy centreAugust 2010Enabling participationIntegrated services for disadvantaged job seekers The recent national commitment Lindsay and McQuaid (2008) countries. The resulting model may to social inclusion is driving a conclude from studying the UK, be too inflexible to accommodate significant shift towards public Denmark and the Netherlands: the dynamic modern labour market.services based on an acceptance that Genuine partnership-working multiple barriers (individual, family As social inclusion principles requires the ceding of authority and structural) prevent social and become more widely understood, and sharing of resources and economic participation for many there is greater acceptance of the responsibilities. Where implemented, Australians. The Brotherhood’s such partnerships can deliver need for a balanced set of macro experience suggests that the best rewards in terms of enhanced and micro level policies to resolve knowledge sharing, improved way to increase employment structural barriers and build efficiency and greater legitimacy for participation involves integrated individual capabilities to enable activation through a sense of shared services that place the disadvantaged take-up of job opportunities. ownership among stakeholders. job seeker at the centre of support. Such shared ownership has proved The community sector has led the difficult to establish and maintain There is ...