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Employability Skills

Employability Skills. ‘From Poverty to Prosperity’ Links with housing Steve Long. Welsh Housing Quality Standard. WHQS – Programme to improve all Council and Housing Associations up to a WAG standard by 2012 Expenditure estimated to exceed £3bn in 1 st 5 years + another £4bn over 30

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Employability Skills

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  1. Employability Skills ‘From Poverty to Prosperity’ Links with housing Steve Long

  2. Welsh Housing Quality Standard • WHQS – Programme to improve all Council and Housing Associations up to a WAG standard by 2012 • Expenditure estimated to exceed £3bn in 1st 5 years + another £4bn over 30 • Next year £500,000,000 to be spent on housing across Wales

  3. Impact in South Wales Over 12 local authority areas 2008-2012: • 95,670 homes* • between £700m and £1.4bn* • 2,428 additional jobs* • churn rate – 10 – 15% per year • multiplier effect – one job makes another job • not just construction jobs! *Savills Report ‘WHQS plus’

  4. WHQS plus • local local jobs & regeneration Training & employment opportunities Jobs hardwiredinto supply chain – manufacture, storage, distribution ‘Can-do toolkit’ – targeted recruitment and training • community ownership/control Community mutual model

  5. WHQS plus -RCT Homes • Internal • 53 jobs • 6 trade apprenticeships • Contractors – 60 jobs • Suppliers – 61 jobs and traineeships • Community Fund

  6. WHQS plus – Bron Afon • Social Enterprise / Community owned • 50 Internal jobs • 57 apprenticeships • Community benefits • supplier / contractor commitments • Remploy • Job Match / Learn2Live

  7. but what about the recession?

  8. Housing links Any Questions?

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