A first-rate line up of speakers reviewed current labour market conditions and previous recessions; the national and regional ESF programmes performance versus the 50+ targets; explaining what the Government is doing in response to the recession and what employers themselves are doing to retain employees of all ages.

The conference’s table discussions generated rich ideas around how to improve the support to people over 50:
Ideas for ESF providers on working with over-50s;
Ideas on ways to achieve better 50+ results;
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Other conference outputs:
Key Messages from the conference
Full Conference Report;
Brains Trust Session Q&As (questions that have not been responded on the day)
Presentations of some of the speakers:
Chris Ball; Sarah Vickerstaff; Carole Willsher; Simon Marlow.
Vox-pop interviews with the conference participants (scroll further down)