Season's Greetings from Infrastruct

From everyone at Infrastruct, we would like to wish you seasons greetings and a happy New Year.

Thanks to everyone we have worked with this year, clients and partners, and we look forward to working again with you in 2011.

Hope you have a relaxing holiday.

Jo Somerset and the Infrastruct Team.

Doing it together: LGBT Mentoring in West Yorkshire

Workplace good practice promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans equality has tended to focus on corporate policies and employee networks. Jo Somerset argues that more is needed, and describes a mentoring scheme that has been adopted by four local authorities in West Yorkshire. ... read more

Anniversary of DEAF

The Deaf Education Advocacy Foundation is celebrating it's 2nd year anniversary in October Take a look here: www.deaf-fellowship.org/anniversary.html ... read more

Infrastruct's 'Better Board Services'

ARE YOU RECENTLY REDUNDANT INTERESTED IN JOINING A BOARD OR AN ORGANISATION REQUIRING BOARD DEVELOPMENT? Are you recently redundant or looking for ways to enhance your profile? Infrastruct is offering a ' BOARD SKILLS WORKSHOP' for individuals who are interested in joining a board in... read more

Who’s leading localities?

Now that the Localism Act has received royal assent, there are some challenging issues for public service providers to ... read more

STATISTICS TO MAKE YOUR TOES CURL

Since the publication of The Case for Strong and Diverse Leadership Teams (NWDA/Infrastruct, September 2010) women’s ... read more

Jo’s latest tweets

Blog post by Polly Robinson Here’s some of Jo Somerset’s latest tweets… If you are inspired then ... read more

Disability Survey

New figures from the Office of National Statistics show that twice as many disabled people face barriers accessing ... read more

What is the key to creating an engaged workforce when money is tight?

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While commissioner I drove hard at cultural change' (Sir Ian Blair)

Extract from ‘The View From Here

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Women and Work Task Force - Meeting at the House of Commons

Following the release of the Women and Work Task Force report, Esther McVey MP convened a meeting for business leaders on 15th December at Westminster to draw attention to the lack of women represented on the Local Enterprise Partnership boards currently being formed.

"This is interesting! I think the main thing is to keep the issue permanently in mind and seek 50/50 representation. Also seek men and women who take a critical perspective on inclusion and gender and are keen to change corporate cultures of overwork!"

Janet Batsleer, Head of Youth and Community Work, Manchester Metropolitan University

Season's Greetings from Infrastruct

Jo Somerset and the Infrastruct Team.