Winners name

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Tackling Worklessness
A Gold Award Knowledge Sharing Conference
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Conference Chair
Peter Dixon Chairman Housing Corporation
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A Gold Award Knowledge Sharing Conference
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Keynote Speaker
Dave Simmonds Chief Executive Inclusion
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A Gold Award Knowledge Sharing Conference
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Will Jennings Director of Regeneration

• Accent Regeneration Community Partnerships

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Creating Jobs for Sustainable Communities

• Accent - Tackling Worklessness
• Programmes
• Youthbuild Personal development, learning,
  skills training and Jobs
• Construction/ Finance Business
• Work Based Learning - E2V,E2E, Basic Skills
• LEGI - Kickstart New Business Dev/Business
  Growth/RSL Commissioning
• Linking our commissioning to economic development
• Training Centres delivering accredited training
• Outcomes
• People assisted over 1400
• People accessing jobs over - 400
• Qualifications over 750
• External Funding secured 5.23M

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Creating Jobs for Sustainable Communities
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• Partnerships - adding value
• The community
• Individuals/Families - understanding specific
  needs
• Stakeholders - understanding the wider issues
• Employers
• Meet employer skill requirements
• Supporting employers who employ local labour
• Trainees
• Matching trainee expectations with employer
  requirements
• Mentoring through out the process
• Service Delivery
• RSL partners - maximising jobs enterprise
  opportunities through local commissioning of
  services
• Third Sector Organisations - building capacity
  through commissioning services
• Training providers - we cant do it all

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Creating Jobs for Sustainable Communities

• Sustainability - Practical aspects
• Clearly defined focus - what and where
• Long term commitment
• Understanding the local economy
• Credibility
• Service development and delivery
• Recruit from within the community
• Access to local knowledge
• Capacity building/Role models
• Not just grant funding
• Income generation/asset development/commissioned
  services
• Employer engagement - understanding their needs
• Joining it all up and making it happen
• Mentoring support for trainees, their families
  employers
• Procurement, learning, skills training, jobs and
  enterprise

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Tackling Worklessness
A Gold Award Knowledge Sharing Conference
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Julie Wedgwood

• Routes 2 Work Manager
• Derwent Solway Housing Association

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Bespoke Packages

• Our bespoke packages of support are a
  partnership between everyone
• Addressing the individual barriers to employment
• Tailoring the needs to the individual
• Collective support
• Sustainable jobs with rewarding careers

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Dedicated Staff

• Using the potential of trainees to develop into
  Routes 2 Work staff
• Sharing vital knowledge/skills
• Wealth of experience
• Ability to understand difficult situations
• Proof of success

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Case Study

• Everyone deserves a chance
• Helping people to help themselves
• Unemployed, lone parent with a drug addiction
• Petty crime
• Skills assessment to succeed against all odds

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A Gold Award Knowledge Sharing Conference
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Steve Mather

• Neighbourhoods Director
• Places for People Group

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Places for People Group

• Large management and development company
• 60,000 homes
• Range of interventions
• Affordable Childcare
• Older Peoples Support
• Flexible Financial Services
• Skills Employability

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Why are we involved ?

• 64 of customers receive state benefits
• 55 of customers who could work dont
• 47 of households with no one working
• 33 hold no qualifications
• 13 have never had a paid job
• GM Skills Survey 2005

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The Business Case

• Creates employment
• Raises aspirations
• Increases incomes and wealth retention
• Supports tenure choice
• Impacts upon wider issues - ASB educational
  attainment, etc.
• Promotes long term sustainability of
  neighbourhoods

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What is our role?

• Direct deliverer
• Facilitator
• Partnership leader
• Community investor
• Housing provider
• Developer
• Employer

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Our Experience

• Opportunistic
• Grant driven
• Experience and track record
• Evaluate and replicate what works
• Build the Business Case
• Mainstream
• Business Opportunity ?

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Our Delivery

• Homework Apprentice
• AKABA
• Working Rite
• Firm Foundations
• Enterprising Communities
• Places for Children
• Building Links ILM

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Our achievements

• 5,987 accessing services
• 1,277 placed into employment
• 2,301 accessing learning
• 1,399 accessing self employment awareness
• 245 New business start ups
• 836 existing businesses supported

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Lessons Learnt

• Cannot tackle worklessness in isolation
• Need to align with housing management
• Flexibility to meet individual need
• Shared agenda
• Removal of disincentives is key
• Vital to delivery of mixed tenure neighbourhoods

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Next Steps

• Economic Development Strategy
• Tackling concentrations of worklessness
• Tackling mono tenure neighbourhoods
• Developing more flexible approaches to remove
  individuals barriers to work
• Developing our Offer for Flexible New Deal ?

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A Gold Award Knowledge Sharing Conference
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Winners Q A
Peter Dixon Chairman Housing Corporation
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Tackling Worklessness
A Gold Award Knowledge Sharing Conference