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Thousands of
young people to be helped into work
MORE than 3,000 young
people are set to be supported into work in Liverpool over the next
3 years.
A report to the Cabinet on Friday, 24 October 2014, is recommending the
council accepts a £5 million grant funded by the Government and the
European Social Fund.
It is part of a wider £13.9 million Youth Employment Gateway
Programme taking place across the City Region, targeted at 18 to 24
year olds who have been unemployed for between two and nine months.
They will receive support that is individually tailored and designed
to help them get a job, with a team of eight staff working from
adult learning venues across the city running work clubs and
providing one to one guidance.
The aim is to make sure they have a good CV, the necessary skills to
make online applications and enhanced interview skills. They will
also have access to a personal coach who will help them achieve
their ambitions and overcome any barriers.
Councillor Nick Small, Cabinet member for employment and skills,
said:- “The jobs market is more competitive than ever and it
is absolutely vital we do all we can to support our young people to
get on to the employment ladder.
This scheme will make sure we provide the support that is right for
each person to help them get into work and take the first steps
towards achieving their dreams.”
The target is for 3,125 young people to access support, with 1,572
of them helped and supported directly into work and 1,106 achieving
more than 6 months of employment.
The programme will run from autumn 2014 until 2017. Letter to the
Editor:- "Do you remember The Rolling Stones in Southport?"
"THE Rolling Stones played the Floral Hall on 3 December 1963 during
a year in which they played over 300 concerts around the UK. The
Stones had not had a top ten hit but they had secured their first
chart successes with their singles Come On and the Lennon &
McCartney song I Wanna Be Your Man. They were on their way to
becoming the biggest pop act in the world after the Beatles.
I am trying to track down people who attended that concert in 1963
and who would be willing to share their memories with me for a book
I am writing. I want to hear what people remember of the concert,
who they went with, how old they were and anything that may have
happened to them that they recall. People who were teenagers when
the Stones played Southport will be in their 60's or older now and I
want to capture their memories of what happened 50 years ago.
I can be contacted via email at:-
richardmhoughton@gmail.com or by letter at 32 Manor
Avenue, Preston, PR2 8DN."
Yours sincerely,
Richard Houghton |
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3D printers
could create customised medicines on demand
LOW cost, personalized
medicines could soon be readily available thanks to 3D printer
technology according to researchers from the University of Central
Lancashire (UCLan).
The revolutionary technique developed by UCLan, which is currently
undergoing a patent application, uses a 3-D printer to ‘print’
a tablet of medicine with realistic quantities that can be taken by
a patient. The printer can replicate drugs already available in
pharmacies and hospitals, but more importantly can tailor medicines
directly to an individual patient’s needs.
This technology will potentially reduce the cost of manufacturing
tablets for individual patients; something that cost the NHS over
£11,000,000 in 1 month only in March 2011; while also opening the
door to new options for doctors and patients that used to be
considered impractical or too expensive.
Dr Mohamed Albed Alhnan from the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical
Sciences alongside his team developed a drug-polymer filament system
that can replace the original filaments in a 3-D printer.
The team discovered that the new pharmaceutical “ink” allowed
the team to print a challenging tablet design with significant
improvement of appearance and high accuracy of tablet weight and
dose.
While 3-D printers have been used by hobbyists and SMEs for several
years, various individuals and organisations have recently been
experimenting with medical uses such as prosthetics or dental
implants. But by demonstrating how this technology can be used to
develop medicines, the UCLan team has opened up significant
opportunities in the pharmaceutical world; particularly around
personalized medicines.
UCLan’s project predicts the technique will be used by
pharmaceutical firms and hospitals within 5 years and by the public
within a decade.
Dr Mohamed Albed Alhnan from the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical
Sciences said:- “3-D printing has been embraced by lots of
different industries but we have shown how this technology can be
harnessed to improve medical care, providing low-cost, personally
tailored medicines for patients.
Thanks to this technology, the invented system can provide medical
institutions with a new option and maintain dosage form properties
while accurately adjusting the dose with simple software order,
something that was considered before to be costly and required
experienced staff and dedicated facilities. Eventually, we hope to
see that units can be kept at home for patients who continuously
need to change their daily dose.”
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