Cheshire SubRegional Housing Strategy

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• Cheshire Sub-Regional Housing Strategy
• Welcome
• Lisa Conway, CWaC
• Dave Shaw, CDHT

2

• Purpose
• Housing Offer Tackling Worklessness

3

• Aim
• Debate the role/ability of housing providers
  to tackle worklessness
• Challenge existing practice
• Promote best practice housing offer ,
  sustainability and more than a set of keys

4

• Good practice within sector.
• Enhanced Housing Options
• Housing Options Pathways Team
• Young Persons Living Plus Programme
• Welfare Benefits Income maximisation
• Customer Profiling, unique relationships
• Social enterprise Nests
• CDHT as a community employer
• Partnerships
• Resettlement worker linked to ex offenders

5

• Track record and a bright future
• Retail Academy
• Workability Success
• Targeted Initiatives
• New link between employment development team
  and housing solutions.
• A strengthened relationship with housing
  providers.
• Futures Bright - Future Jobs Fund

6

• Breakout Session 1.
• What are the barriers which our customers
  experience in securing employment.
• Share your positive practice and experiences of
  how your organisations have impacted on
  worklessness and customer aspirations.

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• Breakout Session 2.
• The current economic climate has created further
  pressure across all sectors with unemployment
  levels doubling over the last 12 months.
• How are you planning to ensure that your
  customers are able to maximise their potential,
  compete in a difficult employment market and seek
  to address the acute levels of worklessness
  across the social housing sector.

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• Conclusion
• Aims of session
• Feedback to CWaC, NHF