At lunchtime today, I represented the City Council at the Local Employment Partnership Launch at Dens Park, and signed up to the partnership on behalf of the Council, along with a number of other local employers.Local Employment Partnerships are an excellent, innovative way of helping more people on welfare benefits into work and the City Council is pleased to be involved with the Partnership, to help improve employment opportunities in the City.
After an afternoon on "day job" activity, I've just watched the highlights of Nicol Stephen's excellent speech at the Scottish LibDem Conference - summed up by the BBC Scotland Political Editor, Brian Taylor, thus:
"Good showing by Nicol Stephen, I thought - the Scottish LibDems conference liked what they heard”
Click on the headline above to read more on Brian Taylor's blog.