The Harlow 2020 Partnership was set up in 1995 by Harlow Council
and a group of local service providers to develop a co-ordinated
approach to the development of the town and realise the benefits of
shared knowledge and resources.
In 2001 the Partnership carried out a widespread consultation
exercise, using the results to develop the first edition of the
Harlow 2020 Vision . We have worked hard on its delivery and are
extremely proud of our achievements to date.
In 2005 Partner organisations carried out a review, looking how
they should work together in future years, to ensure they take a
more strategic and coordinated approach.
To find out more about the Harlow
2020 Local Strategic Partnership, follow this link to go to our
website.
The Partnership receives Performance
Reward Grant from the first Local Area Agreement and uses this
money to enable local partners to contribute to the achievement of
the targets in the second Local Area Agreement.
Follow this link to find out more about
these projects:
Harlow 2020 PRG projects
*NEW* Future Jobs
Fund
Almost 160 local young people
will get new jobs, training and work experience after a successful
bid to the Government’s Future Jobs Fund by West Essex
organisations.
The West Essex Partnership (encompassing the
Harlow, Uttlesford and Epping Forest Local Strategic Partnerships)
has been awarded just over £1million to assist young people who
have been unemployed for approaching a year.
The bid was led by Harlow Council but the jobs
and training places will be spread between dozens of local public
sector and social enterprise organisations including Harlow
Council, Harlow District Chamber of Commerce, Kier Harlow, Harlow
Welfare Rights and Advice, Epping Forest District Council, Epping
Forest College, Uttlesford District Council, Organic Countryside
and Walden Local Food.
The project will run until March 2011 and the
posts will be of six month duration. These posts will be offered in
two stages (79 jobs per stage) and aimed at 18-24 year olds who
have been on Job Seekers Allowance for approaching 12 months and
other long term unemployed people in Harlow. All of the jobs will
pay at least the minimum wage and none of the new jobs are
replacing existing roles or vacancies. All applicants will
initially be referred to the scheme from JobcentrePlus and will
need to go through a recruitment and selection process for the
jobs.
The scheme will be managed by Employ-Ability
and during the course of the job the young people will receive
support to help them improve their future job prospects. All of the
employees will have a guaranteed offer to work for a NVQ level 2 in
customer services or equivalent and they will be offered other
workplace training and help with preparing a CV.
It is envisaged the first of the new roles
will commence in January 2010.
Harlow 2020 Meetings Open To Local
People
Local people are now able to see and hear at first hand how
decisions are made by the Harlow 2020 Local Strategic Partnership
when the body opens its Board meetings to the public in 2008.
Jackie Sully took up the position of Partnership
Chair in September 2007. She explains the thinking behind the
move: "Harlow 2020 takes very important decisions that can
have a major impact on life in our town. We regularly ask
local people for their views on how Harlow should develop in years
to come and it is only right that they should be able to see how we
are working and whether we are delivering. Everything should
be completely transparent and open".
The Partnership Board meets four times a year. The first
meeting to open to local people took place on Friday 7th March 2008
and was attended by many members of the public, including
representatives from local organisations.
Future meetings will take place on::
Friday 18th December 2009
Friday 26th March 2010
Friday 18th June 2010
Friday 17th September 2010
Friday 17th December 2010
All meetings begin at 10.00 a.m. and will take place in the
Civic Centre, The Water Gardens, Harlow. Refreshments will be
available from 9.45 a.m.
Agendas and minutes will be available from this web site the
Monday before each meeting, or on request. For further
details please contact Harlow 2020 on 01279 446455 or email
harlow2020.enquiries@harlow.gov.uk.
Follow this link for the agenda of
the next Harlow 2020 Board meeting:
Harlow
2020 Partnership Board agenda 18th December 2009.
Follow this link for the minutes of
previous Harlow 2020 Board meetings:
Harlow 2020
Partnership Board minutes 20th March 2009.
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Harlow 2020
Partnership Board minutes 19th June 2009.
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Harlow 2020
Partnership Board minutes 18th September 2009.
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Harlow 2020
Partnership Board minutes 18th December 2009.
Compliments and
Complaints
Harlow 2020 welcomes useful comments and
complaints as they help us to improve our services. So it is
very important for us to know how we are doing.
Follow this link to view our
Compliments and Complaints procedure:
Complilments and
Complaints
Harlow 2020
Vision
Key Achievements 2007 - 2008
Harlow 2020's Key Achievements document for 2007 - 2008 gives a
flavour of the progress made towards delivery of the vision for the
future of Harlow.
Follow this link to view the
document:
Harlow 2020 Vision Key
Achievements 2007-08