We know that where this happens it is extremely effective; there are several innovative and highly-skilled agencies across Manchester supporting people out of homelessness every day.
Low-skilled agency and self-employed workers are caught in a race to the bottom.
First and foremost it needs genuine and skilled service improvement agencies offering the support, not regulators.
"Great interactive agencies have skilled software engineers who can offer outside perspectives to act as a check-and-balance on the IT department, thereby adding to risk prevention and mitigation," says Pop Art's Rosenbaum.
The audit found that staff reductions beginning in 1995 resulted in critical shortages of scientific and technically skilled specialists at the agency.
Karen Mattison, chief executive of Timewise, a recruitment agency for skilled part-time jobs, says Foley and Sudbery's experiences are reflective of the wider group of part-time workers.
An agency of skilled, diverse theatre artists, deployable in a wide range of community contexts and able to articulate on stage the full complexity of our globalised world, is of increasing importance.
Other agencies place highly skilled professionals in short- or long-term contracts in industries like engineering and marketing.
Katherine Tubb is director of 2Way Development, a specialist international volunteer agency which placing skilled volunteers with established NGOs Voluntary experience overseas is a good way of narrowing down where you want to specialise: A master's is a really valuable thing to have, but you have to be careful you choose the right one as international development is a very broad subject.
Juicy Media has been operating as a highly skilled and successful digital development agency for over 10 years.
The fact that not one of the agency's 238 skilled craft workers was a woman, she wrote, represented proof of sexual discrimination, and she approved steps to correct the imbalance.
