How do we do ‘it’? Lessons learnt Achievements to date Sense of Place Trainee’s post GM Procure

2. Improving Community Benefits • How do we do ‘it’? • Lessons learnt • Achievements to date • Sense of Place • Trainee’s post GM Procure • Success essentials

3. How do we do it? + = NVQ Level 2 Training Labour value Trainees

4. Lessons learnt + = NVQ Level 2 Training Labour value Trainees FJF – six months prior Added Volume and Diversity Based on skills assessment NVQ Level 3 Consultancy Start/Complete NVQ Level 3

5. Achievements to date GM Procure is committed to re-investing volume cost savings directly back into local businesses, employment and training • 2 trainees per £m labour value and 35% from a non-traditional background • Every year we will help create and support 2 community enterprise • Sense of Place projects – 1:3 leverage

6. Trainees • Integrators • 153 new trainee jobs – 58 new opportunities this year. • High audited retention • 43% distant from the labour market

7. Social Enterprise

8. Partnerships & Process Top 50 prolific offenders Assessment centre Interview Risk assessment Day trial 3 week work placement Employment and Training Ongoing support Move on

9. Small Business Support

11. Targets: Sustainable Communities • Support investments in our neighbourhoods • Improve local community involvement • Increase community safety • Reduce anti-social behaviour issues • Improve personal safety • Raise pride in our neighbourhoods Collaboration : look for the added value • local businesses • college course requirements • probation service • ILM’s • work experience opportunity Tender process

12. Sense of Place update • 16 successful bids • Total value projects £1,800,000 • Sense of Place support £398k • Each project demonstrating how it: • impacts on GM Procure regeneration aims • meets community priorities

13. Increasing community safety, reducing ASB issues

14. Supports existing investment in our neighbourhoods

16. Reducing ASB Designated parking areas have been created where previously the open area was a ‘hot spot’

17. Local community involvement The local school children have designed colourful paving that will be used to enhance the communal areas

18. Personal safety

19. Raising pride in our neighbourhoods

20. Tenant Led

21. Opened June 2009

22. Trainee’s post GM Procure Professional skills development x • 90 people engaged with skills development process, undertaking 82 activities. • 95% receiving ongoing support

23. x • Skills Development for existing professional construction employees • Skills Development is NOT about ‘pestering’ an employer to put • someone on a course to tick the box • Skills development means protecting the employer’s investment in • existing staff • This is achieved: • Through promoting the Professional Review, Professional Membership, and Continuing Professional Development, the exemplar for existing professional staff • By offering bespoke research service to identify training to address specific needs of the role

24. Tenant Involvement Panel • Represented on Working groups • TIP COG GMP Board • Tenant Inspectors • Reader Panel • Tenant Training • Tenant Annual Conference • New OJEU process

25. Key To Success Materials sourced nationally – best possible choice Local contractors – supporting local economy and communities Working in partnership

26. Thank You