Dering

Dering has supported the Deaf Xchange programme run by Deafway Preston which links deaf people across the world to learn about each other’s cultures.

9 young deaf people from Nepal are spending time with Dering staff in Preston to establish a job club in the area and promoting the new service to the deaf community. The aim is to provide pratical work placements that enable learning.

“We hope that some of the Nepalese Deaf people will take some of the ideas and methods we use back to Nepal and look at how to support deaf people into work in Nepal,” said Paul Scott, Employment Advisor for Lancashire & Cumbria.

Dering Employment Services is pleased to announce that a new partnership with Working Links will extend the Pathways to Work programme for deaf people on IB/ESA, income support or DLA into two areas of the Midlands: Leicestershire & Northamptonshire and Coventry & Warwickshire.

“We are pleased to add these areas to our established Pathways employment services in Birmingham, Solihull and Nottinghamshire”, said Tony Barlow, Senior Employment Advisor for the Midlands. Either contact us directly or ask your local Jobcentre to refer you to Dering.

Dering is pleased to announce that from January 2010 they will be working with deaf or hard of hearing people who are due to be released from prison or are on community based sentences to move into work. Working closely with A4e, a leading provider of prison services, Dering will cover the South West region for two years through a NOMS ESF funded programme.

This new service will provide intensive one to one support, soft skills development and training to move people into work to reduce re-offending rates. It will include several well known prisons including Exeter and Dartmoor.

If you would like to access this new service or want more information, email us at info@dering.biz

Dering is delighted to announce that it has won four new ESF subcontracts in the areas of Central London, Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth, and in Outer London, which covers all other London boroughs, the South East and Cumbria/Lancashire. This achievement means we can extend our work with deaf people on Jobseeker Allowance into Outer London, Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Cumbria/Lancashire for the first time.

(Previously we could only work with people on IB/ESA or DLA)

The new contracts will start on 14 December and will run for 18 months. They are largely aimed at supporting deaf people on Jobseeker’s Allowance who have been unemployed for more than six months, through intensive job search support and employer engagement activity.

Clients on this programme will be voluntary and will receive intensive, one-to-one job search support and access to a range of group workshops.

To register to get support just email us with which area you live in at info@dering.biz

Dering has started delivering flexible New Deal, the new programme for people on Job Seeker Allowance (JSA) in 14 areas of the UK.

Flexible New Deal (fND) has been introduced by the government to help people who have been out of work for a long time, prepare for and find a job.

It’s a completely new approach and being flexible it means that Dering are free to help you in the way that’s best for you. We will work with you for up to 12 months to ensure that you are prepared and ready to work and then continue to support you when you get a job.

Flexible New Deal provides joined up support for you with activities and training to support you in your journey into work. These might include anything from debt and housing advice, support with job search and CV writing to work placements and training to get you ready for a particular job. We will also work with local employers to ensure that we can identify opportunities and work with them to identify suitable people to fill roles.

For 3 years in many areas we have not been able to work with JSA claimants because of Government contract restrictions. This new contract means we can now work with JSA claimants and we have started delivery in some new areas such as Cardiff, Wolverhampton, Exeter and Hull.

To access the programme you need to ask Jobcentre Plus when you next sign on to refer you to fND. Show them the list of Dering’s partners below and they will refer you to Dering via the right partner.

• Birmingham & Solihull – FourstaR Employment & Skills
• Black Country – A4e
• Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire – A4e
• Central London, Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth – Calder or A4e
• Coventry, Warwickshire, Marches, Staffordshire – Serco
• Devon & Cornwall – Working Links
• Edinburgh, Lothian and Borders, Lanarkshire, East Dunbartonshire, Ayrshire
• Dumfries, Galloway & Inverclyde – Ingeus
• Greater Manchester – Serco
• Leicestershire, Northamptonshire & Nottinghamshire – Ingeus or Working Links
• North East Yorkshire, Humber & Tees Valley – A4e or Working Links
• North and Mid Wales & South East Wales – Serco
• South Wales Valleys & South West Wales – Working Links
• South Yorkshire & Derbyshire – A4e or Remploy
• Surrey, Sussex & Kent – Skills Training

Dering, the deaf employment services provider launched new websites today for its UK and Australian operations at www.dering.biz and www.dering.com.au

They both feature the latest in social networking tools including Facebook and Twitter, they are easier to nagivate and contact one of the Dering teams in your area and you can now apply for jobs with Dering online!

“We are pleased with the progress of our two new sites,” said ICT Manager, Joseph Gwynne-Jones. “Our online presense is a vital part of the significant investment we are making in computer systems ahead of major new contracts starting in October 2009.”

“We are launching our French and German sites in September and will also offer website translations into Hebrew, Arabic and Polish in the near future.”

Dering, an international provider of job activation services for deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind people today opened a development office in Tel Aviv at Ayalon House, 16th Floor, 12 Abba Hillel Street, P.O.BOX 3306, Ramat-Gan 52136, Israel.

Following requests from the deaf community, Dering has taken this step to facilitate development of services in the country and are working with a number of partner organisations to look at developing employment and training services. An Israel website will be launched shortly.

“This is an exciting step for us giving us our first presence in the Middle East,” said Chief Executive Stephen Dering. “We are opening in Israel following requests from the deaf community and intend to develop a clearer understanding of the barriers and issues that deaf people face in secruing employment and how we may be able to develop services to overcome that.”

Stephen appears on TV Chat Show

Dering Employment Services Ltd’s Chief Executive, Stephen Dering was the first ever guest on new TV chat show, Under the Lamp with Carolyn.

The Program looked at the reasons behind Stephen’s decision to set up a company to support deaf people into work and getting involved with scuba diving. You can watch the Program at www.bslbt.co.uk/chat/