Thursday 26th April 2007, 09:04Inspirational People I’ve said in previous Blogs that one of the things that inspires me is the people who work in A4e to drive the business day in day out. That applies to both our front line staff and the leaders in our business. Last week we held our One Vision conference and our IPL (Improving People’s Lives) awards. I was delighted to be at a table with all our award nominees who had some fantastic stories of how they deliver front line public services to a variety of different customers. I sat next to the winner – Neil – who was fantastic in his commitment to the work he does with you..View Complete Post Wednesday 11th April 2007, 11:12Choice, Personalised Public Services and Social PolicyA4e is probably most well known in its markets for helping people back into work. A few years ago that was pretty much all of our business. As we have grown, so we have diversified and nowadays getting people back into employment accounts for about 40% of our revenue in the UK. There were three main reasons for our diversification – as a business, we needed to work in different markets as we grew to ensure opportunity for our staff as most of our business worked on short term contracts. More importantly, we recognised as we dealt with issues affecting unemployment, we had to develop join..View Complete Post |
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