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Local Authorities Unemployment Strategies
Author(s) -
Portwood Derek
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9515.1986.tb00252.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , business , management strategy , political science , economics , economic policy , economic growth , public administration , business administration
If a “co‐ordinated strategy to reduce the major problem of unemployment” is needed, as Leaper claimed in previous volume, there remains the question of how to develop such a strategy. Central governmental agencies like the MSC have major programmes, but other consequences of high unemployment have to be dealt with by local authorities. Four case studies of attempts made by local authorities in this regard are then examined. The most prominent features in their strategies are: information giving, training provision, job creation and channelling funding from other agencies or internal co‐ordinated funding. The new strategies have involved changes in management and liaison, in policy review and affirmation.